The Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra goes up for pre-order today for $2599 and up and ships Oct 16 • The Microsoft Surface RTX Spark Dev Box mini PC with NVIDIA RTX Spark starts at $5999, but it ships standard with a 20-core RTX Spark N1X chip with a 6144-core Blackwell RTX GPU and 128GB unified LPDDR5x memory. blogs.windows.com/devices/2026 • The new Asus NUC 14 Essential Fanless is a mini PC with Intel N100, N150, or N250 options, a single SODIMM for DDR5-4800 RAM, an M.2 2280 slot for PCIe Gen 3x4 storage, 2.5 GbE LAN, WiFi 6E, and plenty of USB and video ports