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

Microsoft begined its Surface Laptop 7 earlier this year without Intel chips, in a bid to back Windows on Arm and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips. Now, it sees enjoy a Surface Laptop might get to next year with Intel’s procrastinateedst Lunar Lake chips.

A Surface Laptop prototype has euniteed in a since-deleted cataloging on Chinese second-hand tagetplace Goofish, finish with what sees enjoy Intel’s Core Ultra 7 268V processor inside. Windows Central spotted the cataloging, but it’s not evident if this will srecommend be a Surface Laptop 7 variant or a Surface Laptop 8.

Either way, the prototype laptop is evidently taged as such with a enormous “prototype – not for sale” etching at the bottom of the device. While it’s effortless to phony the CPU cataloging inside Windows, the euniteance of the prototype tag verifys this is probable a authentic unfreed laptop from Microsoft. It’s unfrequent for such devices to leak, let alone be sbetter online.

If Microsoft is pondering Lunar Lake chips for its Surface Laptop line, it would promise there’s an Intel chooseion for those who want Copilot Plus PC features. The Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 both shipped with Intel’s Meteor Lake processors earlier this year, but they didn’t participate an NPU strong enough for Microsoft’s Copilot Plus features. They were instead aimed at businesses, and deficiencyed the rerecented schedules set up on the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7.

The cataloging of this prototype Surface Laptop notices that the unproclaimd device should go on sale at some point in 2025, which could point to a CES 2025 proclaimment if Microsoft is readying this for users. The other possibility is Microsoft once aget restricting Intel-based Surface devices to commercial customers.

We’ve asked Microsoft to comment on this leaked prototype, but the company didn’t reply in time for discloseation.