RTX Spark review: HP, Lenovo, ASUS laptops not ready

The review comes weeks into hands-on use, and the writer opens by questioning why Microsoft and Nvidia released the platform now and in its current state. The criticism is not that the hardware is cheap: the reviewer calls it high-end and of premium quality, and credits HP, Lenovo and ASUS with giving their portable workstations distinctive design. The problem is fit. Laptops are described as the wrong form factor for local AI agents, the memory isn't really unified, and Windows 11 offers no features that take advantage of the hardware or let users manage it. The reviewer also notes that other reviewers have struggled with the same issues, citing a PC World reviewer who published two articles in two days without providing a single valid reason to buy one of these laptops. The piece is careful to say the experience has not been all negative, but it places the platform well before the local AI and agents it is meant to serve make sense for most people, and at price points the reviewer says would require a mortgage-sized loan for most customers.