Microsoft releases smaller Surface Laptop with Intel Panther Lake, 24 GB RAM and 25% brighter display
Last month, rumours emerged about Microsoft planning to upgrade its smaller Surface Pro and Surface Laptop products with Intel processors. Currently, the former only remains rumoured for now. Meanwhile, Microsoft has now updated the latter with Intel's Panther Lake platform.
To recap, the Surface Laptop 13-inch landed in 2025 with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus X1P-42-100 chipset. This time, Microsoft has pivoted to the Core Ultra 5 325, an 8-core processor that outperforms the Snapdragon X Plus X1P-42-100 by a wide margin in our benchmarks. The gap between the pair's iGPUs should be even larger, too.
Unfortunately, Microsoft continues to include a 60 Hz IPS display that outputs at 1,920 x 1,280 pixels. However, the display now peaks at 500 nits, a 25% upgrade that brings it into line with the MacBook Neo (curr. $589 on Amazon). Also, the Surface Laptop's battery capacity remains unchanged at 50 Wh. Official battery life estimates have dropped by 2 hours to 14 hours of active web usage, though.
The new Surface Laptop 13-inch 'for Business' starts at $1,499 in the US with 16 GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD. Alternatively, the laptop can be configured with up to 24 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD for $2,249.99, but only in a Platinum finish. At the time of writing, Microsoft is not offering 24 GB RAM variants in other markets like the UK and the Eurozone.
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