Japan-made laptop with 32 GB RAM and 8-core CPU arrives with 30-hour battery life

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Well-known Japanese brand Lavie, owned by NEC Corporation, has unveiled the new X14 laptop featuring an octa-core Intel Panther Lake CPU (the general-purpose processor at the centre of a computer) paired with 32 GB of RAM, as well as a massive battery granting it 30 hours of battery life. Japan-made laptop with 32 GB RAM and 8-core CPU arrives with 30-hour battery life ⓘ Lavie Well-known Japanese brand Lavie, owned by NEC Corporation, has unveiled the new X14 laptop featuring an octa-core Intel Panther Lake CPU paired with 32 GB of RAM, as well as a massive battery granting it 30 hours of battery life.

The brand has now announced a bunch of new products , among which happens to be the Lavie X14 14-inch laptop. ⓘ Lavie Speaking of video editing, the Core Ultra 7 "Panther Lake" chip packs a rather mediocre four-core Intel Graphics Xe3 iGPU, which would be about as powerful as an AMD Radeon 760M found in many mid-range portable laptops and mini PCs (GMKtec M6 Ultra, currently $499 on Amazon ).

Sambit Saha , Published 10/29/2026 Laptop Launch NEC is a well-known Japanese conglomerate specializing in enterprise and consumer computing hardware. The companie's Lavie brand, which is a joint venture between NEC and Lenovo, sells a bunch of laptops, AIOs, as well as tablets.

Powered by a capable Intel "Panther Lake" CPU and plenty of memory, the laptop weighs in at just around 2.25 lbs (~1 kg) and is around 0.74 inches thick. To be more specific, the Lavie X14 laptop comes equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 7 355 CPU paired with 32 GB of LPDDR5x RAM.

SKUs with lesser memory are not available as of this writing. The octa-core CPU consists of four "Cougar Cove" performance cores and four "Darkmont" LP efficiency cores, and performs decently well in most benchmarks, managing roughly 650 points in Cinebench 2024, which puts it roughly 5% ahead of an Apple M3 SoC (a whole computer’s parts built onto a single chip) .