The Surface Laptop Ultra finally has a release date — and a starting price of $2,599

<figure> <img alt="A photo of the Surface Laptop Ultra" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/surfacelaptopultra10.webp?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Months after <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/940584/microsoft-surface-laptop-ultra-nvidia-rtx-spark-pictures">revealing its Surface Laptop Ultra</a>, Microsoft has announced that the Nvidia RTX Spark-equipped device will launch on October 16th. Pricing starts at $2,599 for the base configuration, featuring an 18-core CPU, 24GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Surface Laptop Ultra ships with a 15-inch HDR touchscreen display with up to 2,000 nits of peak brightness, along with a larger trackpad that supports haptic feedback. It uses <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/940589/nvidia-rtx-spark-n1-n1x-laptop-desktop-pc-cpu-gpu-ai-release-date">Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip</a>, an Arm-based processor with up to 128GB of unified memory. Both Microsoft and Nvidia are positioning RTX Spark laptops at the very premium end of the laptop market, designed for hig …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/1006378/microsoft-surface-laptop-ultra-pricing-release-date">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>