Microsoft’s Lunar Lake Surface Laptop Is Reportedly Going to Be Super Late

The Microsoft Surface Laptop has its fans. It’s thin, it’s fast, and it works. The latest rendition of the laptop besides bears the emblem for a caller procreation of Qualcomm’s ARM-based Snapdragon Elite chips connected Windows PCs. But it seems Microsoft mightiness person a astonishment for each those wanting an Intel x86 Lunar Lake chip that tin spell toe-to-toe successful show and artillery beingness without sacrificing bundle compatibility.

A Microsoft Surface laptop… surfaced connected the Chinese website Goofish bearing an Intel’s Lunar Lake spot made for ultra-small notebooks. Redditors and Windows Central archetypal picked up connected the leak, but it’s not thing Gizmodo tin independently corroborate since the introduction has since been deleted. Based connected anonymous sources; Windows Central noted that Microsoft is investigating Lunark Lake Surface Laptops. These caller models could get arsenic soon arsenic 2025 if the anonymous sources are to beryllium believed.

We don’t cognize if Microsoft would simply repetition the Surface Laptop 7 oregon motorboat a caller Surface Laptop 8, but we’re acold much funny astir however this circumstantial Surface bore an Intel Core Ultra 7 268V. That’s a important measurement up from galore of the archetypal sub-16-inch laptops with Lunar Lake, similar the Asus Zenbook S 14, which contained either a Core Ultra 7 256V oregon a 258V, portion larger laptops similar the still-unreleased Acer Swift 16 AI are expected to person the Core Ultra 9 288V.

If Microsoft is considering releasing a next-gen Surface Laptop, it would beryllium astatine the apical of its class. The 268V has 4 cores and 4 threads, positive a 5.0 timepiece velocity and the 2nd highest-frequency Arc 140V GPU successful the Ultra 2 lineup. It has the aforesaid representation arsenic the top-end Core Ultra 9 288V, though it doesn’t person astir the aforesaid basal TDP.

That circumstantial listing connected Goofish noted that the terms of this expected Surface Laptop was 19,000 CNY, oregon $2,600 U.S. You should instrumentality that terms with a atom of salt, though the specs are interesting. It was packing 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage, truthful it would beryllium 1 of the top-end configurations. A existent 13.8-inch Surface Laptop 7 with the Snapdragon Elite CPU, 32 GB of RAM, and 1 TB SSD starts astatine $2,000, portion the 15-inch mentation goes for $2,100.

The erstwhile mentation of the Surface Laptop with the first-gen Meteor Lake chips was lone disposable successful the company’s concern line. Enterprise laptops are usually much costly than consumer-grade devices, truthful determination whitethorn beryllium a crushed wherefore the terms shown connected Goofish was arsenic precocious arsenic it was.

While we astatine Gizmodo weren’t astir arsenic thrilled with the Surface Pro 11’s signifier origin and artillery life, the Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite spot is nary joke. It handily beats Meteor Lake and Apple M3 Chips successful respective benchmarks successful multi-core settings. Intel’s Arrow Lake chips were hoping to beryllium ARM isn’t the future, but we’re inactive waiting for the top-end chips successful an existent laptop to beryllium that point.