I ditched my office desktop PC for a gaming laptop, and it's a serious productivity upgrade

Dell, Asus, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, and Gigabyte are among the PC makers that are designing systems around Nvidia’s RTX Spark, Nvidia’s new Arm-based chip for Windows PCs. But the flagship RTX Spark PC may be from the same company that makes Windows: the new Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra is a high-end RTX Spark system that will offer up to 128GB of unified memory for “creators,

Microsoft launched the Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia's N1X chip and RTX Spark platform just before Computex. It's a powerful 15-inch laptop that replaces the Surface Laptop Studio and other premium devices.

With Snapdragon C, we are raising the bar for what budget-conscious laptop buyers should expect,” Qualcomm senior director of product management Mandar Deshpande told journal

Nvidia Corp is entering the PC market with a new chip aimed at loosening the stranglehold of Intel Corp technology in that arena and modernising the machines for the AI era.

Now that Apple's MacBook Neo is out and exceeding everyone's expectations, Qualcomm has announced its new Snapdragon C platform for budget-friendly Windows laptops. These machines are expected to start at around $300—half the price of the $599 Neo.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon C chip is designed for Windows laptops targeting a $300 price point.