Microsoft is working on a variation of its Surface laptops powered by Intel’s Core Ultra 200V ‘Lunar Lake’ chip, and more recently, it was spotted in the wild at a Chinese retail platform Goofish.
The announcement comes after other manufacturers such as ASUS, Lenovo, and MSI have already gone on to unveil laptops powered by Intel’s Core Ultra 200V “Lunar Lake” CPUs, leading most people to wonder if Microsoft had secretly pulled out of the ultra-premium business. This was a far cry from Microsoft’s early excitement for Qualcomm with its Snapdragon X Elite SoCs.
More About the Microsoft Surface Laptop Spotted on Goofish
A new report published by WindowsCentral has detailed a listing of an upcoming Surface laptop that features Intel’s Core Ultra 7 268V SoC on Goofish. Referred to by the model number “Surface Laptop 7,” given it is currently in testing, just with a new processor architecture alongside. With this new Surface laptop 7, it seems the fact that Qualcomm has already shown its Snapdragon chips in various models will mean the basic structure and design of each laptop may still stay mostly as they were.
On Goofish, The Surface Laptop 7 will cost around $2,600 for one with 32GB of RAM and a more impressive Intel Core Ultra 7 268V configuration that could reach 1TB of storage. The Core Ultra 7 268V itself is an eight-core processor (4P+4E) with eight threads, a 12MB L3 cache, and a clock speed ranging from 3.30 GHz to 5.0 GHz. It includes an Arc 140V iGPU with up to 8 Xe2 cores running at 2.0 GHz, and its power settings are 17W PL1 and 30W PL2, offering respectable graphics performance, though not suited for high-end gaming.
The listing on Goofish is not definitive regarding the final pricing and configuration, but it confirms that Microsoft is preparing a Surface Laptop powered by Intel’s Lunar Lake architecture. The anticipated retail price will likely be closer to $1,500, rather than the higher listing seen on the platform.
