The Surface Laptop Ultra delivers on most of Microsoft's promises
Microsoft promises one machine for dev, AI, and gaming, and mostly gets there.
Microsoft promises one machine for dev, AI, and gaming, and mostly gets there.
The short version
- Over the past week, the laptop Microsoft sent me has been summarizing books and movies, generating images from my imagination, and running a 70-billion-parameter AI model that would be a stretch to fit on most laptops.
- It also played AAA games at a speed and fidelity I would have thought impossible on an ARM system just a year ago.
- Microsoft wants to sell you one computer for all of your needs, and for once that doesn’t feel like total marketing fluff.
What happened
The Surface Laptop Ultra arrives at a strange time in personal computing. Recent industry numbers showed a 20 percent drop in total PC shipments year over year in the third quarter of 2026.
Why it matters
That’s not just consumer purchasing either—that’s across the board.
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