NEC squeezes a 99.9 Wh battery into a 999 g laptop, claims two-day runtime without a charger

[Redaktion]

NEC's 999 g LAVIE BM94C pairs a 99.9 Wh battery with a carbon-reinforced chassis, promising up to 50.8 hours of idle use or 30.5 hours of video playback. The 14-inch business laptop launches in late July with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/NEC-squeezes-a-99-9-Wh-battery-into-a-999-g-laptop-claims-two-day-runtime-without-a-charger.1350765.0.html

[Well]

Perfect battery/weight ratio
But the starting price is too crazy, more than $3000 for an Intel Core i5 ? Come on

[32GB RAM and 35B SOTA AI]

See, this is a device that stands out. But:

up to 32 GB of LPDDR5X memory

means, if you care about using this laptop for AI extensively, know that with current SOTA AI LLM Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model and its lowest usable quant, you will be restricted to about this amount of context:

.. I've come to the conclusion that (1) 32768 is the biggest context I can get away with in an adequately smart model, and (2) it just ain't enough.

More here: notebookchat.com/index.php?topic=315954.0 ("Your own ChatGPT, offline: AI without the cloud on your laptop").

[To be fair]

Come on

Japanese laptops (Panasonic/Fujitsu/NEC/Sony/etc) have always been insanely overpriced, outside Japan anyways.

@32GB RAM and 35B SOTA AI:

For image generation, like the was used on sites like videocardz and here, I wonder what they're using.

Like cloud models like nano banana or can be done locally with qwen image edit?