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NovaCustom – Framework Laptop alternative focusing on privacy

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34 points CHEF-KOCH | 2 comments | 28 Jun 25 18:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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speedgoose ◴[28 Jun 25 20:41 UTC] No.44407998[source]▶
A maximum of 8GB vRAM in 2025 is quite limiting. You can only run the smallest large language models on those laptops.
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1. SlowTao ◴[28 Jun 25 20:55 UTC] No.44408124[source]▶
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.

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2. speedgoose ◴[28 Jun 25 21:21 UTC] No.44408275[source]▶
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.