NovaCustom – Framework Laptop alternative focusing on privacy

A maximum of 8GB vRAM in 2025 is quite limiting. You can only run the smallest large language models on those laptops.

Maybe this laptop is not for you then. That's cool.

But if you don't need to run LLM's these will be fine.

Yes I guess some could also be fine with a privacy focused mechanical typewriter.

When Apple and AMD sell very descent laptop hardware (M4 or Ryzen AI Max), I find the Intel/Nvidia combo with only 8GB a bit conservative.

Your world must be so different from mine! It would never occur to me to care about such a thing.

I was content with 8GB of main RAM in my dev laptop until about a year ago.

The vRam for example limits you running local llms. Basically, the formula for this is: 1GB of vRAM can handle 1B parameters. There are ways to overcome this, but the easiest way for the best performance, is just to have enough vRAM.

If running local LLMs were a thing I ever wanted to do, I'm sure that would be something that mattered to me.