TechA week with RTX Spark: what we learned from Nvidia’s new laptops

Three writers spent a week testing five laptops powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark N1X, an Arm-based SoC with Blackwell graphics and enough unified memory to run sizable local AI models. Their early impressions describe an exciting high-end chip, while noting that the laptops are expensive and that most Windows-on-Arm apps worked, though occasional compatibility glitches remained.

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