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Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/06/01/microsoft-builds-its-ultimate-macbook-pro-rival-with-the-nvidia-powered-surface-laptop-ultra/
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Surface has seen so many iterations, some terrible, some nice. Still rocking the discontinued surface laptop studio as Wacom on the go, smallish footprint (14”) creative development machine. I just love its quirkiness and the fact that I can jump on photoshop to touch up an image, use it as tablet for movies, or vs code for (not great nowadays) 6h on battery. It is an odd intersection.
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The primary reason to buy Macs isn't the hardware, it's macOS.
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Too bad linux x86 on arm story is still terrible. Fex is great in a sense but getting it run is a herculean feat, with pagesize mismatched requiring a VM.
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The deal breaker is, can only run Windows.
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So... nvidia agreed to pull a qualcom... well, enjoy the failure. people that would be early adopters want a real operation system that would actually allow them to leverage the hw, not a pathetic web-ui-based vibe coded operation system that requires wsl to make anything useful.
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