Microsoft is introducing new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop products today, packed with Intel Lunar Lake processors and made for businesses. Coming in Platinum and Black, they're the same products as the Surface Pro 11th Edition and the Surface Laptop 7th Edition, just swapping out the Qualcomm Snapdragon X series processors. The one real twist is that, for the first time, the Surface Laptop is going to have a 5G option.

The Surface Pro and Surface Laptop for Business don't replace the existing ones

Snapdragon still comes in business variants

While the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 launched among a broader range of Snapdragon / Copilot+ PCs in June last year, Microsoft had quietly refreshed its Intel Surfaces just a few months earlier. The Surface Pro 10 for Business and Surface Laptop 6 for Business were just CPU bumps, using the same chassis that Microsoft had used for ages.

There were reasons for this. One was to give businesses another generation with the same form factor, and another is because businesses still very much rely on Intel. Those products lived alongside the new Snapdragon ones, which also had their own business SKUs. The Snapdragon commercial products will now live alongside these new Intel ones.

Lunar Lake is a massive upgrade over Meteor Lake, offering solid improvements to battery life and graphics power. And of course, it supports Copilot+ on-device AI features, something previously exclusive to Qualcomm.

Both of these new products are offered with either a Core Ultra 5 236V/238V or a Core Ultra 7 266V/268V, with that last '6' or '8' digit representing either 16GB or 32GB LPDDR5x RAM. The memory is on the chip with Lunar Lake, hence the different CPU SKUs, but that does mean you can't upgrade it. As with previous generations, the SSD is swappable.

The first Surface Laptop 5G

It's about time

Microsoft has been making cellular versions of Surface products for almost as long as it's been making Surfaces. The first was the Surface 2, which was running the now-defunct Windows RT 8.1. But while we've seen cellular connectivity in a variety of Surface tablets and dual-screen phones, this is the first time it'll be in a proper laptop.

The 5G variant of the Surface Laptop for Business is coming later this year...and that's all Microsoft is saying about it. There's no word on what the configurations will look like. With earlier versions of the cellular Surface Pro, it only came with a Core i5, since the Core i5 models were fanless and the cellular modem was placed where the fan was on the i7 SKUs. Obviously, the Surface Laptop has a fan no matter the processor, so that's not going to be the case here.

Here's what I do know. The Surface Laptop 5G is only going to be offered in these new Intel-flavored variants, and only to business customers. That means there's no Snapdragon model, although it does have a Qualcomm 5G modem in it. If you want a Snapdragon X Elite 5G Surface, you'll have to get the Surface Pro, which ironically is not available with an Intel processor.

There's a new Surface USB4 Dock too

It weirdly doesn't work with the Surface Laptop Studio

Microsoft is releasing a Surface USB4 Dock, which will offer two USB-C, one USB-A, HDMI, and Ethernet ports. It'll work on most Surface PCs with USB4/Thunderbolt 4 ports. The Thunderbolt 4-equipped Surface Laptop Studio is listed as unsupported, since the dock only supports 65W power passthrough. It will also work on Surface PCs with USB 3.2 Type-C, albeit with more limited functionality.

The new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop are available for pre-order beginning today, starting at $1,499.99, and they'll be available on February 18. Those starting configurations come with a Core Ultra 5, 16GB RAM, and a 256GB SSD. For comparison, the Snapdragon variants of the Surface Pro and Surface Laptop for Business start at $1,099.

• Surface Pro for Business

  Operating System

  Windows 11 Pro

  CPU

  Core™ Ultra 5 processor 236V, 238V, Core Ultra 7 266V, 268V

  GPU

  Intel Arc

  RAM

  16GB, 32GB LPDDR5x

  Storage

  256GB, 512GB, 1TB removable Gen 4 SSD

  Display (Size, Resolution)

  2880x1920

  $1499 at Microsoft

• Surface Laptop for Business

  Operating System

  Windows 11 Pro

  CPU

  Core™ Ultra 5 processor 236V, 238V, Core Ultra 7 266V, 268V

  GPU

  Intel Arc

  RAM

  16GB, 32GB LPDDR5x RAM

  Storage

  256GB, 512GB, 1TB remova

  Battery

  54WHr, 66WHr

  $1499 at Microsoft