Microsoft is taking pre-orders for the Surface Laptop Ultra ahead of an October 16 release, while a separate 13-inch Surface Laptop built on Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Plus goes on sale October 13 in some markets.
Two Surface Laptop releases sit on the calendar. The 13-inch Surface Laptop, announced October 5, 2026 alongside a 12-inch Surface Pro and a second-generation Surface Mouse, runs on Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Plus processor. Sales for that group begin October 13 in some markets. Microsoft gave Japanese pricing for the Surface Pro 12-inch at 195,580 yen and describes it as its most portable model, but the stories do not state Japan launch timing for the 13-inch Surface Laptop.
Three days later, on October 8, Microsoft and NVIDIA opened pre-orders for the Surface Laptop Ultra, with release set for October 16 at 9:00 PM. Sofmap is taking reservations on a dedicated page. The Ultra runs on the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X, an Arm-based Grace CPU paired with an RTX GPU. The top configuration carries a 6144-core Blackwell RTX GPU, a 20-core Grace CPU, and up to 128GB of unified memory, which Microsoft says is enough to run AI models above 120B parameters locally and reach up to 1 petaflop of AI performance.
The Ultra's 15-inch PixelSense Ultra touchscreen peaks at 2000 nits. The chassis stays under 18mm thick and under 2kg, using a thermal design rated at up to 2.5 times the capacity of existing Surface Laptops. Storage is user-removable, and charging moves to a magnetic USB Type-C system called Magnetic Connect. Microsoft's US price starts at $2599, and in Japan the Ultra starts at 513,480 yen, a gap the stories note directly.
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Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Ultra and the small desktop Surface RTX Spark Dev Box at its Surface October 2026 event in San Francisco on October 7. The 15-inch laptop runs NVIDIA's RTX Spark N1X SoC with unified memory from 24GB to 128GB, and its cooling capacity is 2.5 times that of existing Surface devices. Release is October 16, 2026, and preorders have begun.
Microsoft and NVIDIA opened pre-orders for the Surface Laptop Ultra on October 8, 2026, with the release set for October 16 at 9:00 PM. Sofmap is accepting reservations on a dedicated page. The notebook runs on the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X, a chip pairing an Arm-based Grace CPU with an RTX GPU. The top configuration carries a 6144-core Blackwell RTX GPU, a 20-core Grace CPU, and up to 128GB of unified memory, enough to run AI models above 120B parameters locally and reach up to 1 petaflop of AI performance. The 15-inch PixelSense Ultra touchscreen peaks at 2000 nits. The chassis stays under 18mm thick and under 2kg, using a new thermal design rated at up to 2.5 times the capacity of existing Surface Laptops. Storage is user-removable, and charging moves to a magnetic USB Type-C system called Magnetic Connect. Microsoft's US price starts at $2599.
Microsoft announced a 12-inch Surface Pro, a 13-inch Surface Laptop, and a second-generation Surface Mouse, all built around Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Plus processor announced in January 2026. The Surface Pro 12-inch carries a 500-nit PixelSense touchscreen, weighs 686 grams, and starts at 195,580 yen in Japan. The Surface Mouse adds haptic feedback and runs on two AAA batteries. Sales begin October 13 in some markets.