When Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop 3 back in October 2019 it impressed many. Partly because Microsoft announced that the new Surface Laptop 3 is twice as fast as previous generations and the fact that the main Surface Laptop 3 15-inch version was powered by a custom AMD processor. Intel has long dominated the mobile market, but AMD has been pushing in with their Ryzen series of processors and challenging Intel.

The odd thing about the Surface Laptop 3 15-inch models is that while AMD was tapped for the consumer model, Intel powers the new Surface Laptop 3 15-inch model for Business. So, if you poke around on the Microsoft website long enough you’ll run across Surface Laptop 3 15-inch models with the latest 10th Gen Intel Core ‘Ice Lake’ processors inside.