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New Microsoft Surface Laptop specs leaked in benchmark test

Microsoft's stellar Surface Laptop is overdue for a refresh, and we just got some pretty concrete evidence that a new model is coming soon. An unreleased Surface Laptop 8th Edition with an Intel Panther Lake processor and a 13.8-inch display appeared in two Geekbench 6 listings earlier this week. The listings, which were viewed by Mashable and captured in screenshots by Notebookcheck, were removed by Thursday morning. Primate Labs' Geekbench 6 is a popular benchmark for measuring devices' CPU performance. (We run it on every laptop we review.) Geekbench 6 results are automatically uploaded to a public online database unless the user enters a paid license key. Presumably, someone at Microsoft or Intel forgot to do so before benchmarking the device in question. Microsoft hasn't confirmed any new Surface PCs for 2026 yet, though it announced significant price hikes for its current-gen devices earlier this month, citing "recent increases in memory and component costs." When reached for comment about this week's Geekbench 6 leak, a rep for the company said, "Microsoft has nothing further to share at this time." The mysterious Surface Laptop's Geekbench 6 results revealed that it runs on

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New Microsoft Surface Laptop specs leaked in benchmark test

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