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Microsoft launched its Surface Laptop 7 earlier this year without Intel chips, in a bid to promote Windows on Arm and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips. Now, it looks like a Surface Laptop might arrive next year with Intel’s latest Lunar Lake chips.
A Surface Laptop prototype has appeared in a since-deleted listing on Chinese second-hand marketplace Goofish, complete with what looks like Intel’s Core Ultra 7 268V processor inside. Windows Central spotted the listing, but it’s not clear if this will simply be a Surface Laptop 7 variant or a Surface Laptop 8.
Either way, the prototype laptop is clearly marked as such with a giant “prototype – not for sale” etching at the bottom of the device. While it’s easy to fake the CPU listing…