Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2,599.99, making it one of the company’s most expensive laptops. Its biggest selling point is something most conventional laptops cannot offer: up to 128GB of unified memory designed to support demanding AI workloads.

Announced in October 2026, the Surface Laptop Ultra combines Nvidia RTX Spark hardware, a 15-inch mini-LED touchscreen, and Windows 11. Microsoft is positioning the device for developers, creators, and professionals who want to run AI models locally rather than depend entirely on cloud services.

That raises an important buying question: Who actually needs this much computing power?…