Intel first discussed the mobile architecture it calls Lunar Lake way back in June, and stated at the time it would arrive in Q3. The initial reveal included some lofty performance claims, so we've all been waiting to find out if those numbers were marketing BS or the real deal.

We benchmarked a retail model Asus Zenbook S 14 with Intel's new and true AI-ready Lunar Lake platform and saw standard-setting battery results.

The first reviews and tests of laptops with the new Intel Core Ultra 200V Lunar Lake processors have appeared. Almost everyone studied the new platfor

Thanks to Intel's new x86 Core Ultra 200V chip, the Asus ZenBook S 14 has the same battery life as Snapdragon notebooks and comes with everything for Copilot+.

Astounding battery life and massive leaps forward in CPU and GPU performance prove that Intel is done messing around. Click here for Lunar Lake benchmarks.

Ultra-thin and light laptops like the Asus Zenbook S 14 live and die by their battery life. No one likes forever hunting for outlets, and that's particularly frustrating with computers designed to be highly mobile;

Lunar Lake is Intel’s Snapdragon killer. Intel’s Core Ultra Series 2 (Lunar Lake) was specifically designed to emphasize low power, but with competitive performance. In this it somewhat succeeds, though the Core Ultra 7 258V chip I tested can still run a distant second,