Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra is now shipping — October 16, 2026, in the US and India, as the first Windows laptop powered by an Nvidia chip. It’s not a GeForce or RTX-branded gaming rig. It’s something else entirely: a PC built from the ground up to run local AI agents, with a custom N1X processor, RTX Blackwell graphics, and up to 128GB of unified memory. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called it “a work of love” and said it took “four years” and “several thousand engineering years” to build. He didn’t mean that metaphorically. This isn’t a refresh. It’s a new category. One that blurs the line between workstation, AI server, and personal computer. And it starts at $2,599 in the US. In India, it’s priced at ₹3.29 lakh. That matches the Sony Bravia 9 II’s Indian price tag, but this isn’t a TV. It’s a laptop aimed squarely at developers, AI researchers, and engineers who need to run large models locally without cloud dependency. The base model packs 24GB RAM and 512GB storage. A higher-tier version bumps those to 32GB and 1TB. Both support the full RTX Spark platform. Nvidia’s new stack for on-device agentic workflows. Huang described a vision where you “text your computer” to render an image, update a presentation, or parse a dataset, then walk away while it executes, using native tools, frameworks, and local files. No API calls. No latency. No subscription. Just the machine, working. That requires hardware no existing laptop offers: a Blackwell-based GPU with shared memory architecture (the first of its kind), 1 petaflop of compute, and firmware-level integration with Windows Copilot+ agents. Huang framed it against three existing PC types: the basic productivity machine, the GeForce gaming PC, and the Quadro/RTX workstation. The Surface Laptop Ultra, he said, “runs everything a PC doesn’t.” Meaning: it runs every AI framework, every open-weight model, every toolchain. Simultaneously, locally, securely. Microsoft confirmed the October 16 launch date. No pre-order window was mentioned in the sources. No UK or European pricing appears in either report, only the US and Indian figures. And no review scores, battery life, or real-world performance claims were cited. Those will come later. For now, this is about availability, positioning, and what the specs imply for who can actually use it. Developers with access to early SDKs are already testing agent workflows. Microsoft and Nvidia say full developer tooling rolls out alongside Windows 12’s AI agent runtime. Expected in Q1 2027. Until then, the Surface Laptop Ultra ships as a sealed, high-stakes bet: that local AI isn’t just possible, but necessary, and worth $2,599 to own.