Cover card: starting price $2,599, up to 6,144 CUDA cores, up to 128GB memory, ships October 16

Deep Dive · Laptop · Global

Surface Laptop Ultra Is the First RTX Spark Laptop You Can Preorder, From $2,599

Microsoft opened preorders for the Surface Laptop Ultra, among the first laptops built on Nvidia’s RTX Spark (N1X). Here are the two chip tiers, prices, ship date and what is still undisclosed.

Cover card: weight 799g (among the lightest 14-inch laptops), thickness 12.9mm, 50Wh battery, EMEA launch December 2026

Deep Dive · Laptop · Global

Lighter Than a Gram: Acer's Swift Blade 14

Acer unveiled the 799g Swift Blade 14 at IFA 2026. We weigh it against LG’s 1.29kg gram AI 2026 14-inch, which just launched in Korea this month.

Weekly brief card: LG gram Book 14 from KRW 1.45M, Galaxy Book6 14 from KRW 1.19M, Jetson Orin Nano 2 at 78 TOPS, shipping H1 2027

Weekly Brief · Laptop · SBC

On sale today, shipping next year

Two budget 14-inch laptops launched in Korea on the same day, NVIDIA’s next entry-level Jetson for robots, and Poco’s pricier F9 flagships.