A first look at Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra and Surface Dev Box

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Microsoft unveiled two new Surface devices at its Build conference, both powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark chips. The Surface Laptop Ultra, which resembles a 16-inch MacBook Pro, and the Surface Dev Box represent different approaches to the same processor, one optimized for portable productivity, the other for development workloads. While details remain sparse in early hands-on impressions, the devices signal Microsoft's push into AI-capable hardware as the company competes in a market increasingly defined by neural processing power.