The Surface Laptop Ultra finally has a release date — and a starting price of $2,599

Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra signals a push to make high-end AI-capable Windows laptops a premium enterprise endpoint, with hardware tuned for local AI, creative workloads, and power users. For CIOs and IT leaders, the strategic question is whether the productivity and on-device AI benefits justify the steep cost and potential support complexity versus standard fleet devices, especially as organizations weigh Windows-on-Arm compatibility, device management, and developer/creator use cases.