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ASUS Charges $2,599 for a Laptop NVIDIA Actually Designed

The ProArt P16 runs on NVIDIA's own RTX Spark superchip, not a chassis ASUS built around someone else's GPU. NVIDIA already ran this exact playbook on the desktop, and the pattern points to OEMs becoming assemblers instead of designers.

4 min read · 2026-10-17 · #NVIDIA · #ASUS · #RTX Spark · #DGX Spark · #AI PCs · #chips
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