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Intel launched its Wildcat Lake series of CPUs last week , called "Core Series 3," with but we haven't seen any laptop with these chips.. That is, until today. NotebookCheck's Vaidyanathan Subramaniam just took to X to show off the first machine equipped with Wildcat Lake silicon. It's a reference design, as denoted by the Intel branding on the laptop, but it's still our best look at a potential MacBook Neo competitor on the Windows side.

First look at an Intel Wild Cat Lake laptop in the wild. 2 Cougar Cove P + 4 Darkmont E cores 17 W PL1 and 35 W PL2 / 22 W PL1 Max / 11 W fanless17 TOPS NPU2 Xe coresThin and light designLooks like a perfect laptop for the beach, innit 🌊🏖️ pic.twitter.com/MCsCVbpM4A April 23, 2026

The laptop in question has four power modes: 17W PL1, 22W PL1 Max, 35W PL2, and an 11W 'fanless' mode. That's a decent bit of grunt for entry-level silicon, and the device also features an aluminum chassis, according to a reply on the original X post.…