Microsoft declared an imaginary war last night Apple and its software and hardware products. At the press conference, which he attracted quite a with confident slogans like "new era", namely, he revealed the direction he would like to take in the future, both in the field of software and hardware. Unsurprisingly, artificial intelligence played the main role, which is set to become an even more prominent part of Windows, but also new hardware capable of running demanding AI models directly on the device. In addition to software innovations, therefore Microsoft also announced the price and availability of its most powerful Surface Laptop Ultra, which he introduced in May this year and which he now wants to really flood with professional MacBookum Pro od Apple.
Surface Laptop Ultra is a truly interesting machine in terms of hardware. Its heart is the Nvidia RTX Spark chip combining up to a 20-core Nvidia Grace processor with Blackwell architecture graphics, which can offer up to 6144 cores. Up to 128 GB of unified RAM is available and the computing power for AI can reach up to one petaflop. The equipment is complemented by a 15″ touch screen mini-LED display, large haptic trackpad, magnetic charging or a relatively rich port equipment. Microsoft In addition, it promises to be lighter than 16″ MacBooku Pro, although of course the current generation. The new generation of these machines is supposed to arrive even lighter, at least according to the leaks so far. The price of the new product starts at $2599 and will go on sale on October 16. And to Microsoft transition from Applu even more attractive, offers owners of selected MacBooků Pro When you buy them, you get a bonus of up to $1000, so the switch will theoretically only cost $1599, which is a really interesting price for such a powerful machine.
Windows Another big change awaits
Even more interesting than the hardware itself, however, is the direction it wants to take. Microsoft scroll WindowsThe company presented its vision of so-called hybrid intelligence, in which AI tools will use both the power of the computer itself and cloudservices. In other words, this means that users will not have to send data to remote servers for every more demanding request, as the device can handle some of the tasks itself. In a way, this is also a takeover of the vision Apple, which tries to solve many AI tasks directly on the device, but sends the more complex ones to cloud.
Microsoft but also wants to focus on AI agents that will be able to perform more complex tasks independently. For example, it has prepared technology for them Microsoft Execution Containers, which aim to separate the activities of AI agents from other processes and better control what data and functions computers have access to.
Next to Microsoft also continues to gradually modernize the environment itself Windows 11. For example, in the test versions of the system, redesigned system dialogs appeared, such as the File Properties window with dark mode support, the modernized AutoPlay, Print Management, or the Run dialog. So this is not a show Windows 12, but rather about another gradual transformation of the current system, which is to increasingly adapt to the era of artificial intelligence.
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To make things worse, Microsoft In addition to the laptop, it is also launching the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a compact computer aimed primarily at developers working with artificial intelligence, offering up to 128GB of unified memory and up to one petaflop of performance. Its price starts at $5999, which puts it in a similar segment as the more powerful configuration Mac Studio. Microsoft so obviously he doesn't want to Appnot compete with just one laptop, but with a whole network of powerful hardware, Windows and artificial intelligence tools. And this will probably be one of the most interesting battles in the world of personal computers in the coming years.
