First Intel Wildcat Lake laptop spotted in the wild, geared to compete with MacBook Neo — features an aluminum chassis with 11W fanless mode

Intel Core Series 3 Wildcat Lake press image.

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/MCsCVbpM4AApril 23, 2026