Our initial testing suggests you should expect significantly improved performance and battery life from laptops packing Intel's Lunar Lake CPUs compared to older Meteor Lake laptops. However, the Lunar Lake chips we've tested still can't catch up to the best that Apple and Qualcomm have on the market.

The laptop PCMag received for testing is the Asus Zenbook S 14, which sports the Intel Core Ultra 258V, which is an upper-midrange version of the CPU. All Lunar Lake CPUs sport a 4+4 core configuration with four P-cores and four E-cores,

Intel’s Lunar Lake processors are really going to deliver on the battery life front, according to some new info from Lenovo. Tom’s Hardware flagged up that Lenovo has apparently broken an NDA and published battery life figures for one of its new Yoga laptops with a Core Ultra 200V (Lunar Lake) CPU,

Intel first announced its next-generation Lunar Lake mobile architecture in June and followed up with a paper launch on Sept. 3. Now we're just waiting for actual laptops to arrive, which should be happening soon.