Intel’s dominance of the PC market has been under pressure from AMD, Qualcomm and Apple. Lunar Lake is Intel’s demonstration of what it can achieve when it focuses.

We pit the Dell XPS 13 (9350) with Intel's new Core Ultra 7 258V "Lunar Lake" processor against the XPS 13 (9345) with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite XIE-80-100 chipset to see which XPS is best.

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.

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.

The Core Ultra Series 2 (Lunar Lake) processor from Intel was created with a focus on low power consumption while maintaining competitive performance. Will Intel Give Competition to MacBook Air? Let's find out.

Simply put, Lunar Lake (as far as we know) isn’t destined to be a CPU powering the best gaming laptops, as it doesn't play well with a dedicated GPU. And if you see any laptop makers brag about a new gaming laptop sporting one, I’d take any claims with a serious pinch of salt.

Shadow of the Erdtree on Lunar Lake to see how it might handle these rather demanding titles. Here's what happened!