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Walmart has slashed the price of MSI's Codex Z2C gaming desktop to $999, saving $600. The system features an AMD Ryzen 7 8700F CPU, GeForce RTX 5060 Ti graphics card, 16GB DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, all built on a Pro B840-VC WiFi motherboard with upgrade options. The deal has quickly gained popularity, with over 500 units sold since yesterday.
Microsoft is expected to reveal pricing and a release date for its Surface Laptop Ultra at an upcoming event, according to the report. The laptop, first shown in June, is among the first devices to use NVIDIA's new RTX Spark chip, an Arm-based processor built for running large AI models locally, and features a 15-inch mini-LED display with up to 2,000 nits of brightness.
Microsoft is holding a Windows and Surface event in San Francisco focused on local AI's role in future PCs, with CEO Satya Nadella and Windows chief Pavan Davuluri speaking. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is also expected to attend, fueling speculation that Microsoft will launch the Surface Laptop Ultra, a 15-inch model powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark chip first teased at Computex.
Best Buy is selling the HP Omen Transcend 14 gaming laptop for $1,999.99, down from its $2,999.99 list price. The configuration on sale includes an Intel Core Ultra 9 285H processor, 32GB of LPDDR5x memory, an Nvidia RTX 5070 Laptop GPU with 8GB of VRAM, a 1TB PCIe Gen 4 SSD, and a 14-inch 3K OLED 120Hz display.
GPU prices are climbing sharply, with NVIDIA's RTX 50-series up as much as 39 percent and AMD cards rising up to 10 percent, driven by demand from AI companies and individuals building local AI setups. Cards with large VRAM capacities, such as the older NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, are commanding strong resale value because they can handle AI workloads despite their age.
WiCi has unveiled the WiCi One, an external graphics card enclosure that connects to laptops wirelessly over Wi-Fi 7 instead of using Thunderbolt or OCuLink cables. The base model includes an Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16GB GPU, an Intel Core 3 100U CPU, and 1TB of storage, with a more powerful RTX 5090-based version planned. Preorders for the base model start at $1,999, rising to $2,599 at full release, with shipping expected in the fourth quarter of this year.
Microsoft Surface CVP Brett Ostrum told Windows Central that new laptops meeting the Copilot+ hardware requirements are no longer being labeled with the Copilot+ badge, even though the underlying NPU and performance specs remain. Devices like the upcoming Nvidia RTX Spark N1X and Microsoft's own Project Zenith are shipping without the branding, and Microsoft says it's scaling back Copilot's visible presence in Windows 11 while promising better performance and reliability, including optimization for 8GB RAM systems.
Nvidia has released version 2.0 of its RTX Mega Geometry SDK, which now streams high-density mesh geometry into VRAM on demand rather than requiring an entire scene's geometry to fit in memory at once. When a scene exceeds a set VRAM budget, the system reduces detail rather than repeatedly swapping data in and out of memory. The SDK, part of Nvidia's RTX Kit toolset, is available now on GitHub alongside the RTX Kit 2026.3 release.
Windows Central reports that Microsoft and its hardware partners have quietly stopped using the 'Copilot+ PC' branding introduced in 2024. None of the Surface PCs launched in 2026 carry the moniker in their names, unlike earlier models, and Nvidia's upcoming RTX Spark platform—despite meeting the spec requirements—also avoids the label. The underlying technical requirements for Copilot+ PC hardware still exist, but the marketing name is increasingly absent from spec sheets and product listings.
Micron has marked its 2GB (16Gb) GDDR7 memory chips, in both 28 Gbps and 32 Gbps variants, as End of Life on its website, according to an X post from UNIKO's Hardware. The chips had only recently entered production and shipped on a limited number of Nvidia cards, including retail versions of the GeForce RTX 5060, with Samsung and SK Hynix supplying the bulk of GDDR7 for the RTX 50 lineup.
Prominent hardware leaker Kopite7Kimi says Nvidia's next-generation RTX 60 series, built on the Rubin architecture, won't launch until 2028 at the earliest, later than the previously rumored late-2027 window. Nvidia declined to comment, saying it doesn't discuss rumors or unannounced products.
Microsoft will hold a San Francisco event on October 7, its first major Windows-focused gathering in over two years, to outline upcoming plans for Windows, Surface hardware, and local AI computing. CEO Satya Nadella and Windows/Surface chief Pavan Davuluri will appear alongside Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, pointing to deeper collaboration on AI-capable PCs. The event is expected to bring updates on the Surface Laptop Ultra, a device built on Nvidia's RTX Spark platform with up to 128GB of unified memory.