Linus Tech Tips Discussion

 Nvidia and Microsoft reinvent the PC (+ MS Surface Ultra with miniLED) Summary Nvidia and Microsoft reinvent the Windows PC. (for the third time in four years, after 2023’s “AI PCs” and 2024’s “Copilot+ PCs”)   You won’t be able to upgrade the RAM or choose a modular dGPU, and you’ll be happy.   Also, the Surface Ultra with miniLED (and touch) will go up against the MacBook Ultra with tandem OLED (and touch). How the tables have turned, huh?   Quotes Quote NVIDIA RTX Spark powers the world’s first Windows PCs purpose-built for personal agents, featuring 1 petaflop of AI performance, industry-leading power efficiency, full-stack NVIDIA AI and graphics technology, and up to 128GB of unified memory. NVIDIA and Microsoft collaborate to deliver a native Windows experience for personal agents, including new security primitives and NVIDIA OpenShell to run agents securely on primary devices. RTX Spark lets creators, AI developers and gamers render ultralarge 90GB+ 3D scenes, edit 12K 4:2:2 video, generate 4K AI videos, run 120B-parameter LLMs with up to 1 million tokens context using agents locally, and play AAA games at 1440p and over 100 frames per second. Adobe is rearchitecting Photoshop and Premiere from the ground up for RTX Spark to deliver 2x faster AI and graphics performance. RTX Spark-powered slim Windows laptops with all-day battery life and premium displays, as well as compact desktop PCs available this fall from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface and MSI, with models from Acer and GIGABYTE to follow.   Quote Surface Laptop Ultra is our first laptop to combine a powerful NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU with up to 128GB of unified memory and full CUDA support. Unified memory allows the pool of RAM to be dynamically allocated wherever your workloads need it most across CPU and GPU, so AI creation, 3D rendering and multi-model workflows run simultaneously, with 1 petaflop of AI compute, capable of running up to 120B parameter models locally. No walls. No compromises.   […]     The 15-inch mini-LED PixelSense Ultra touchscreen runs up to 2,000 nits of peak HDR brightness, 262 pixels per inch and high-precision color accuracy. The brightest display we’ve ever shipped. The haptic touchpad is the largest we’ve ever put on a Surface. Every port you actually use is on the device: HDMI, USB-C, USB-A, SD card, headphone. These are the ports creators need, and they were picked on purpose. This is Surface craft at its most considered. Performance, durability and repairability living together rather than trading against each other.   My thoughts   Third time’s a charm, am I right?   In 2023, “AI PCs” were sh