4 Nvidia RTX Spark laptops I'm most excited to try - including Microsoft's new Ultra

The wait is over. After years of speculation, Nvidia has finally announced its new CPU for consumer laptops, competing directly with industry giants Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm. The new RTX Spark chip will be featured in laptops and desktops from major PC brands, including HP, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, Microsoft, MSI, and Dell, with some models available as early as this fall.

Nvidia, in partnership with Microsoft, claims its new Arm-based RTX Spark is a game-changer, offering up to 1 petaflop of AI performance, full-stack graphics technology, and up to 128GB of unified memory to power creative tasks. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the partnership at Computex 2026 in Taipei, promising a native Windows experience centered around personal agents, with agentic AI features soon to be accessible directly from the Windows taskbar itself. "We've worked with Microsoft for two and a half years: reinventing the PC and reinventing Windows," Huang said during a press Q&A in Taipei.

"We're reinventing the PC." So, which laptops are generating the most buzz? Microsoft's new Ultra, designed for "world builders," boasts a commanding 15-inch mini-LED PixelSense Ultra touchscreen and the largest haptic touchpad on any of its laptops. The flagship Windows PC is touted as the most powerful Surface laptop ever built, optimized for RTX Spark.

It will feature an Nvidia Blackwell RTX GPU and up to 128GB of unified memory that can be dynamically allocated for high performance across creative tasks, such as 3D rendering and multimodal workflows. Other laptops that have caught my attention include Dell's new 16-inch XPS, designed for creators, AI developers, and gamers, with up to 128GB of unified memory, all-day battery life, and a tandem OLED display with support for True Black HDR 600. Asus' ProArt lineup, featuring both 14- and 16-inch models, pairs the RTX Spark CPU with up to 128GB of unified memory, 2TB of local storage, a haptic touchpad, and a Lumina Pro tandem OLED display at 3840 x 2400 resolution.

MSI's N16 Flip AI Plus, a convertible device, also features an OLED display and Nano Pen stylus, although details on hardware configurations remain scarce. With premium builds and high-end specs, these laptops are expected to come with a price tag to match, likely over $2,000.