Leaked sale of a Intel Core Ultra 7 268V rendition of the Surface Laptop shows Microsoft isn’t putting all its eggs in the ARM basket.

Portable computers can be a great way to get work done on the move, but that only works well if they they're performant while still running for a long time on their batteries. The Microsoft Surface Laptop promises both,

A strange leak revealed details about an Intel Lunar Lake-based Windows laptop, a machine we've heard nothing about so far. Could Intel's new chip outdo the Snapdragon X Elite?

Microsoft is reportedly developing the Surface Laptop 7 with Intel's Lunar Lake processors, specifically the Core Ultra 7 268V CPU. Leaks from the Chinese marketplace Goofish, as reported by Windows Central,

Copilot+ PC Surface Laptops with Intel Lunar Lake are on the way thanks to a Intel Core Ultra 7 268V-powered variant appearing on an auction site in China.

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This machine, which had 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, was listed at 19000 CNY. That works out to about $2,600, suggesting this will be an expensive machine when it's released. The most expensive Snapdragon X Elite version of the Surface Laptop retails for $2,500.

An alleged prototype of the Surface Laptop powered by Intel's Lunar Lake chipset was spotted on a Chinese website.