Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops are gunning for the MacBook Pro. Yawn

Macworld Nvidia just announced its new consumer laptop/desktop chip at Computex—RTX Spark—along with a host of partnerships from hardware manufacturers and Microsoft. It’s all anyone can talk about right now, and one of the most often-repeated lines is that Nvidia just put the MacBook Pro on notice. This is it… this is the superchip that will make Windows laptops put the nail in the MacBook Pro’s coffin. I find the RTX Spark chip extremely interesting, and it’s definitely aiming at a market segment that overlaps the MacBook Pro, but I’m not sure it’s time for Apple to start sweating. High-performance Windows PCs exist today, and a somewhat better spin on them isn’t going to spell the end for Apple. What is RTX Spark? In brief, RTX Spark is a new chip made for high-performance thin and light laptops or small-form-factor desktops. It’s up to 20 ARM cores made by MediaTek (10 Cortex-X925 and 10 Cortex-A725) and an Nvidia Blackwell GPU with up to 6,144 co