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Ep 26: Nvidia's $2,399 RTX Spark laptops put up to 128GB in a portable Windows PC. · MAG 7 Daily

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  NVIDIA's $2,399 RTX Spark laptops put up to 128GB in a portable Windows PC. This is MAG 7 Daily,
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  Episode 26. NVIDIA's own newsroom says those RTX Spark machines are on sale now, with
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  Blackwell RTX graphics and the full NVIDIA AI platform inside Slim Premium Windows PCs.
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  The brands on the list are ASIS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, and MSI. NVIDIA frames
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  them for local AI, for content creation, and for gaming you can carry.
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  Microsoft shows up there as a laptop maker, not as the tenant of a haul.
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  Google has a new home speaker, and the New York Post-Nishka Dawan put the price at $100
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  — six years after the last NES speakers.
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  She says this model replaces that older generation, and is built to run with Gemini for home.
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  The box she measured is 3.4 inches tall, and 4.2 inches across, and it weighs 9 tenths
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  of a pound with the power cable.
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  Audio is a 58-millimeter full-range driver
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  throwing sound in a full circle.
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  It connects over Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4,
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  and Thread 1.3 with three far-field microphones
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  and a 30-watt USB-C adapter on a cord.
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  Colors are berry, porcelain, hazel, and jade.
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  She added it in the Google Home app in under five minutes.
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  With Gemini, she set schedules, had her calendar read back,
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  held a conversation, and cut the assistant off mid-sentence.
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  It can also sync to other smart devices already in the house.
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  Some of those controls need Google Home Premium.
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  On the advanced plan, she says you can search camera history or get a home brief of what
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  the house did while you were out.
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  Mark German says the stores he has spoken with are still counting iPhone Duo units they
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  expect by next Friday against units already promised to pre-orders.
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  He calls any verdict on stock for people who did not pre-order premature.
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  He also says Apple has sent zero communication to its retail stores, telling them to turn
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  walk-in buyers away.
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  A manager at a few stores may have said something to staff.
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  Nothing like that has gone out as store policy.
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  He is not saying it will not happen.
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  He is saying it has not been said.
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  In China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Korea, he writes, that same message covers only the iPhone
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  18 Pro Max.
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  Carson Oliver is Apple's new vice president of the App Store, and tech meme pointed to
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  a polygon interview with him. The subject's tech meme named are Apple's gaming vision,
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  Apple Arcade, and tools for indie game developers. Metta is under election scrutiny in Brazil,
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  Benzinga reported, over Instagram restrictions on accounts belonging to Lula ahead of a runoff.
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  Bolsonaro is named in that same item's framing. Elon Musk has agreed to settle two lawsuits,
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  the Verge reported, over a 2024 promise of $1 million a day to a randomly picked registered
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  voter in a swing state. Two Arizona residents had called that drawing a fraud. The settlement
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  covers those two cases. The laptop launch is not the rental book. The telegraph, as tech meme
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  carried it, says Microsoft canceled its deal to be end-scales anchor tenant, and to rent 23,000
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  NVIDIA AI chips at a planned center in Essex that has already slipped more than once. Bloomberg,
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  citing the telegraph, says that exit lands at a critical moment for British NeoCloud end-scales
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  hopes of an initial public offering. On the US map, a Financial Times report via TechMeme
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  says, RegLayer counted 47 or more large data center projects delayed, withdrawn or blocked
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  in 2026. Bernstein's estimate in that report is that about 35% of the planned US pipeline
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  is credible. That shares the number that decides how much announced hall space behind NVIDIA
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  chips should be treated as real. Yesterday's cloud conversation was about growth. Today's
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  This number is a price gap.
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  Tech Insider put $5.41 an hour between NVIDIA H100 rates on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft
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  Azure and Google Cloud.
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  The New York Times via TechMeme says Core Weaves Bond yield has topped 15% that ensuring
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  soft bank debt is getting more expensive, and that some Oracle debt is changing hands
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  near 80-90 cents on the dollar.
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  InfoQ says Amazon will run its European sovereign cloud without the global backbone for several
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  hours. A shattered .io note describes a Google Cloud U4 chip with 120 cores, aimed at high
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  frequency trading. Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet are the three clouds in that H100 comparison,
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  so a buyer of the same Nvidia part can be shown three different hourly prices. Nvidia is the
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  maker of the H100 in that survey, not the author of the prices. The gap is a rental spread.
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  It does not, on those terms, add a building, a power feed, or a permit.
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  Core Weave, SoftBank, and Oracle are outside these seven companies.
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  The TimesP still sits next to Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet because that kind of borrowing
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  has been paying for AI buildings and the accelerators inside them.
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  A yield through the level the TimesPrinted is an expensive coupon.
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  Paper in the 80-90 cent range is below face value.
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  you. Either print makes the next unbuilt haul harder to finance than chips that are already
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  installed and already priced by the hour. Amazon's European drill asks the scarcity question
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  a different way. Can that region keep running when the usual worldwide network is gone? For
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  a stretch counted in hours rather than dollars per hour? The drill does not add H100 capacity.
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  They are named with Amazon in the price comparison, so they share the commercial spread and not
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  the disconnection test. Amazon carries both a slot in the H100 spread and those sovereign
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  cloud hours. Microsoft carries Azure's slot in the same spread, so a workload that can
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  move can use the gap against Azure or in Azure's favor. The UK lease Microsoft dropped is a
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  building contract, separate from this rate card. Alphabet carries Google clouds place in the spread
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  and those 120 U4 cores, a trading chip rather than the H100 being priced by the hour.
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  A short path through a market and a rental gap are different offers, and both are Google
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  Cloud putting a number on specialized compute while Amazon prices an H100 hour and schedules
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  a disconnection.
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  Nvidia carries the H100 as the part all three clouds are pricing, so the spread is what
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  those clouds charge for Nvidia hardware.
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  Not a list price Nvidia posted today.
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  Apple's number in this set is a device price.
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  Mac rumors reported the iPhone Duo starts at $1,999 in the United States, a purchase rather
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  than an hour of rental.
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  The times yield and the oracle sense stay a backdrop for all of them, and a filing from
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  none of them.
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  On the calendar, October 23 is the date Mac rumors reported for the first iPhone Duo pre-order
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  deliveries.
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  October 24 is the date Apple's online store tells customers to check back for pickup,
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  And MacRumor says that message does not guarantee stock.
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  Before we go, watch whether Bernstein's 35% credibility share, not the laptop sticker,
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  is the figure people use the next time a haul full of NVIDIA chips is announced.
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  The past seven days, taken together, were less about one product and more about what these
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  companies were allowed to ship and where the machines sit.
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  Google DeepMind's proof system took down nine open-earthish problems, two of them unsolved
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  12 for 56 years, and by Saturday, Google had opened deep review to the public after more
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  than 16,000 paper checks.
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  Microsoft's plan for co-pilot replies from 2027 still rests on 96 accelerators in one
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  rack, while Househouse kept August big walk off Xbox over Microsoft's Israel ties.
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  Apple's China Path moved on three model filings for mainland iPhones, and the UK cloud story
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  still leaves Amazon and Microsoft as the two firms that can ease switching.
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  That's mag7 daily for today.
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  Nothing in this show is financial advice.
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  I'm Patrick and Vancouver.
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  See you tomorrow.
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