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The Surface Laptop Ultra delivers on most of Microsoft’s promises

Over the past week, the laptop Microsoft sent me has been summarizing books and movies, generating images from my imagination, and running a 70-billion-parameter AI model that would be a stretch to fit on most laptops. It also played AAA games at a speed and fidelity I would have thought impossible on an ARM system just a year ago. Microsoft wants to sell you one computer for all of your needs, and for once that doesn’t feel like total marketing fluff. Mostly.

在过去的一周里，微软寄给我的这台笔记本电脑一直在总结书籍和电影、根据我的想象生成图像，并运行着一个在大多数笔记本电脑上都难以容纳的 700 亿参数人工智能模型。它还以一年前我在 ARM 系统上认为不可能实现的速度和保真度运行了 3A 级游戏。微软希望向你推销一台能满足你所有需求的电脑，而这一次，这感觉并不完全是营销噱头。至少大部分情况如此。

Microsoft is throwing both arms around the new Nvidia RTX Spark platform with the Surface Laptop Ultra—and setting its sights on the would-be MacBook Pro buyer, or as the company called it, “a high performance audience.” The bet is that rather than a gaming desktop for fun and a development laptop for work, buyers will pay more for one machine that does both.

微软正通过 Surface Laptop Ultra 全力拥抱全新的 Nvidia RTX Spark 平台，并将目标锁定在潜在的 MacBook Pro 买家身上，或者正如该公司所称的“高性能用户群体”。其赌注在于，买家宁愿多花钱购买一台能同时兼顾娱乐和工作的机器，而不是分别购买一台用于娱乐的游戏台式机和一台用于工作的开发笔记本电脑。

The Surface Laptop Ultra arrives at a strange time in personal computing. Recent industry numbers showed a 20 percent drop in total PC shipments year over year in the third quarter of 2026. That’s not just consumer purchasing either—that’s across the board. Between the RAMpocalypse that has exploded consumer prices and an industry fixated on enterprise money, there hasn’t been much new hardware to excite PC enthusiasts.

Surface Laptop Ultra 问世于个人计算领域的一个奇怪时期。最近的行业数据显示，2026 年第三季度全球个人电脑出货量同比下降了 20%。这不仅仅是消费者购买力的下降，而是全方位的下滑。在导致消费价格飙升的“内存灾难”以及行业专注于企业盈利的背景下，市场上并没有出现多少能让个人电脑发烧友感到兴奋的新硬件。

Microsoft isn’t the only one debuting an RTX-chipped laptop. Dell’s XPS 16 Creator Edition and Asus’s ProArt series (our own Ryan Whitwam‘s review should be appearing on the front page soon) are betting on the chipset as well. The question when reviewing the Surface Laptop Ultra isn’t whether it can achieve the things that it claims competently, but whether there’s finally a compelling reason for power users to switch to an ARM system, and whether their daily workloads can still be achieved without hiccups when compared to a more traditional x86 offering, or the biggest competitor within the segment, the MacBook Pro.

并非只有微软在推出搭载 RTX 芯片的笔记本电脑。戴尔的 XPS 16 Creator Edition 和华硕的 ProArt 系列（我们 Ryan Whitwam 的评测很快就会出现在首页）也在押注这款芯片组。在评测 Surface Laptop Ultra 时，问题不在于它能否胜任其声称的功能，而在于对于高级用户来说，是否终于有了令人信服的理由转向 ARM 系统，以及与更传统的 x86 产品或该领域最大的竞争对手 MacBook Pro 相比，他们的日常工作负载是否仍能顺畅完成。

With a starting price of $2,599, this is not a budget alternative to Apple silicon. This is bleeding-edge hardware, and you’re going to be paying a premium for it. Depending on your selected processor and memory options, MSRP can reach as high as $5,899. Prospective buyers should note that the lower-specced 24GB unified memory model ships with Windows 11 Home, while the rest of the fleet arrives with Windows 11 Pro.

其起售价为 2,599 美元，这并非苹果芯片的廉价替代品。这是尖端硬件，你需要为此支付溢价。根据你选择的处理器和内存配置，建议零售价最高可达 5,899 美元。潜在买家应注意，配置较低的 24GB 统一内存型号预装 Windows 11 家庭版，而其余型号则预装 Windows 11 专业版。

I received the 64GB model for testing, and I think that would probably be the sweet spot for a lot of users to align cost and performance. I really have to wonder if 24GB is enough to go around when we know that Windows 11 is memory-hungry on its own. When you have to assign a significant portion of that 24GB of unified memory to VRAM for gaming, does performance suffer? An audience question inside the Surface Laptop Ultra review information session asked about the usefulness of the base model, and didn’t get much back other than a vague “useful for smaller models locally” answer.

我收到的是 64GB 型号进行测试，我认为对于许多用户来说，这可能是平衡成本与性能的最佳选择。我确实怀疑，考虑到 Windows 11 本身对内存的渴求，24GB 是否真的够用。当你必须将 24GB 统一内存中的很大一部分分配给显存用于游戏时，性能会受到影响吗？在 Surface Laptop Ultra 的评测说明会上，有观众提问关于基础型号的实用性，但得到的回复仅仅是模糊的“适用于本地运行较小的模型”。

Microsoft may have a more definitive answer to that question a few months from now when software and drivers catch up with hardware. So has the Microsoft and Nvidia team-up created the ultimate all-in-one laptop? Or is this the industry once again putting the hardware hype cart before the finished-software horse?

几个月后，当软件和驱动程序跟上硬件步伐时，微软或许能对这个问题给出更明确的答案。那么，微软与英伟达的合作是否打造出了终极的一体化笔记本电脑？还是说，这又是行业在成品软件尚未就绪的情况下，再次过度炒作硬件？

Surface Laptop Ultra specs

Surface Laptop Ultra 规格

Tidy internals of the Surface Laptop Ultra. Microsoft promises the laptop is “built with serviceability in mind.”

Surface Laptop Ultra 整洁的内部结构。微软承诺该笔记本电脑“在设计时考虑了可维修性”。

The 15-inch mini-LED display might not be enough to get folks to run to the Ultra on its own, but it’s a compelling reason to add it to the list. The 3270×2180 native resolution looks simply stunning whether you’re watching a 4K video, playing games, or just staring at a desktop spreadsheet. I preferred the Enhanced color profile, but Vivid and sRGB modes looked fantastic as well.

15 英寸的 mini-LED 显示屏本身可能不足以让人们蜂拥购买 Ultra，但它确实是一个将其加入购买清单的有力理由。无论是观看 4K 视频、玩游戏，还是仅仅盯着桌面上的电子表格，3270×2180 的原生分辨率看起来都令人惊叹。我更喜欢“增强”色彩配置文件，但“鲜艳”和 sRGB 模式看起来也非常棒。

Not the easiest to photograph, but the screen is stunning in person.

虽然不太容易拍摄，但屏幕在现实中看起来非常惊艳。

Blacks stayed deep against bright, vivid subjects without any sort of visible blooming. I wish I could say the same for my TV. While I can’t quantify how it stacks side by side with the latest MacBook Pro Retina display, I can say that this is a damn nice screen. Viewing angles are superb, colors are punchy, and the 2,000-nit peak brightness kept things legible even in a room flooded with natural sunlight.

在明亮、生动的画面背景下，黑色依然深邃，没有任何可见的光晕。我希望我的电视也能做到这一点。虽然我无法量化它与最新的 MacBook Pro Retina 显示屏相比如何，但我可以说这是一块非常出色的屏幕。可视角度极佳，色彩鲜艳，2000 尼特的峰值亮度即使在充满自然光的房间里也能保持清晰可见。

My only gripe is that in bright rooms, there is glare to contend with. The glossy glass looks fantastic at lower light levels but can act a bit mirror-like in direct sunlight. It hindered my ability to photograph the screen more than it did my ability to use the computer. Still, if you’re looking for a matte-screen laptop, you might want to keep that in mind.

我唯一的抱怨是，在明亮的房间里，会有反光问题。光面玻璃在光线较暗时看起来很棒，但在直射阳光下会有点像镜子。这对我拍摄屏幕的影响比对我使用电脑的影响更大。不过，如果你正在寻找一款雾面屏笔记本电脑，你可能需要考虑到这一点。

Big Buck Bunny in 4k looks incredible on this screen.

4K 分辨率的《大雄兔》在这块屏幕上看起来令人难以置信。