From The Verge: The rumors are true. Microsoft is launching Intel-powered versions of its Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7. Available on February 18th, both of these new Surface devices are Copilot Plus PCs, but instead of using Qualcomm’s Arm-based Snapdragon X series of chips, they’ll use Intel’s Lunar Lake processors.
Microsoft is targeting these models at businesses, much like how it released Intel-only versions of the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 last year. Business customers will now be able to pick between Intel or Qualcomm inside Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 designs that are identical.
The Surface Laptop 7 for businesses will be available starting at $1,499.99, which is $500 more than the starting price of the Qualcomm variant. Two different screen sizes will be available: 13.8-inch and a larger 15-inch model, and both can be configured with Intel Core Ultra 5 or Ultra 7 chips, up to 32GB of RAM, and up to 1TB of storage. Microsoft is promising up to 14 hours of battery life (based on active web usage) on the 15-inch model and up to 12 hours on the 13.8-inch variant. These estimates are only an hour behind the same figures Microsoft provides for the Qualcomm versions of the Surface Laptop 7.
The ports on the Intel-powered Surface Laptop 7 are largely unchanged, with Microsoft opting for a USB-A 3.2 port instead of the USB-A 3.1 that ships on the Qualcomm version. There are also two USB-C 4 / Thunderbolt 4 ports, the Surface Connect charging port, and a headphone jack. Microsoft is also using the same PixelSense displays on the Intel variant of the Surface Laptop 7 as the Qualcomm version.
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