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?

[Bùi Giang]

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

Sigh, Japanese laptop are like that. Really wanted one, but at 3.6k, nah.

[Bùi Giang]

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?

We use GPT Image 2. Slow, expensive, but can generate decent looking images.