New Surface Laptop Ultra #Vergecast

Sasha Nadella once looked me in the eyes and said if I could rename Windows I'd rename it Azure Edge. >> Really? >> Yeah. >> He's like whatever man. >> Like >> Sachi Nadella by the way not great at naming products it turns out. >> So Microsoft had an event this week. They announced a thing called the Surface RTX Spark Devox which really just rolls off the tongue. Let's start with the Surface Laptop Ultra which they've talked about before. This is by a mile the most powerful Surface they ever built. It's It's intended to be for local AI development for people who want to build with AI. >> I'm fascinated to see if Microsoft selling an NVIDIA platform. I mean, it's expensive. It's a $2,600. >> Yeah. >> But is there like massive demand for a high-end Nvidia laptop that might be able to do local AI? And is that a glimmer of a signal that actually local computing is going to be back in vogue when we've all just been trained to be like, it's all in the cloud? Apple's trying to do this with Apple intelligence, but it's it's so narrow and incomplete in that way. Microsoft could be the one to be like, "Well, we've just baked this whole thing into your computer and now it works offline." Like, it it is a very funny switch from the company that just spent the last decade >> from the Azure company, >> the Azure company that also spent all of Satinella's tenure moving office to the web, moving Windows to the web, everything is is in the cloud now.