Surface Laptop Ultra Pre-Orders Open With 1 Petaflop AI Performance
Microsoft and NVIDIA opened pre-orders for the Surface Laptop Ultra on October 8, 2026, with the release set for October 16 at 9:00 PM. Sofmap is accepting reservations on a dedicated page. The notebook runs on the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X, a chip pairing an Arm-based Grace CPU with an RTX GPU. The top configuration carries a 6144-core Blackwell RTX GPU, a 20-core Grace CPU, and up to 128GB of unified memory, enough to run AI models above 120B parameters locally and reach up to 1 petaflop of AI performance. The 15-inch PixelSense Ultra touchscreen peaks at 2000 nits. The chassis stays under 18mm thick and under 2kg, using a new thermal design rated at up to 2.5 times the capacity of existing Surface Laptops. Storage is user-removable, and charging moves to a magnetic USB Type-C system called Magnetic Connect. Microsoft's US price starts at $2599.