Microsoft’s prototype Surface Laptop leaks with Intel’s Lunar Lake chips inside

Microsoft launched its Surface Laptop 7 earlier this twelvemonth without Intel chips, successful a bid to beforehand Windows connected Arm and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips. Now, it looks similar a Surface Laptop mightiness get adjacent twelvemonth with Intel’s latest Lunar Lake chips.

A Surface Laptop prototype has appeared successful a since-deleted listing connected Chinese second-hand marketplace Goofish, implicit with what looks similar Intel’s Core Ultra 7 268V processor inside. Windows Central spotted the listing, but it’s not wide if this volition simply beryllium a Surface Laptop 7 variant oregon a Surface Laptop 8.

Either way, the prototype laptop is intelligibly marked arsenic specified with a elephantine “prototype - not for sale” etching astatine the bottommost of the device. While it’s casual to fake the CPU listing wrong Windows, the quality of the prototype statement confirms this is apt a genuine unreleased laptop from Microsoft. It’s uncommon for specified devices to leak, fto unsocial beryllium sold online.

If Microsoft is considering Lunar Lake chips for its Surface Laptop line, it would guarantee there’s an Intel enactment for those who privation Copilot Plus PC features. The Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 some shipped with Intel’s Meteor Lake processors earlier this year, but they didn’t see an NPU almighty capable for Microsoft’s Copilot Plus features. They were alternatively targeted astatine businesses, and lacked the refreshed designs recovered connected the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7.

The listing of this prototype Surface Laptop notes that the unannounced instrumentality should spell connected merchantability astatine immoderate constituent successful 2025, which could constituent to a CES 2025 announcement if Microsoft is readying this for consumers. The different anticipation is Microsoft erstwhile again limiting Intel-based Surface devices to commercialized customers.

We’ve asked Microsoft to remark connected this leaked prototype, but the institution didn’t respond successful clip for publication.