GEEKOM's new GeekBook M16 brings a Core Ultra 9 and a 99.9Wh battery to the business laptop market for $899

GEEKOM, a brand best known for its ultra-compact mini PCs, has launched its first high-performance business laptop. The GeekBook M16 is priced at $899 with a $100 pre-order discount, bringing it to $799, and it comes with an Intel Core Ultra 9 processor and a battery capacity that puts many premium laptops to shame.

On the hardware side, the Core Ultra 9 branding is front and center in GEEKOM's marketing, though the actual chip is the Core Ultra 9 185H, a Series 1 Meteor Lake processor rather than the newer Arrow Lake or Panther Lake architectures. That is not a dealbreaker, as the 185H remains a capable chip with 16 cores, 22 threads, boost clocks up to 5.1GHz, and sustained power of up to 55W through GEEKOM's Dynamic Tuning Technology.

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However, this does make the M16 a step back from the GeekBook X14 Pro and X16 Pro that GEEKOM showed last year. Those models were listed with Intel Core Ultra 200H "Arrow Lake-H" processors, including the Core Ultra 9 285H. The M16 features a 99.9Wh battery, which GEEKOM claims can provide up to 24 hours of Wi-Fi browsing and around 20 hours of local video playback. It also supports 100W fast charging via USB-C.

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The rest of the package is solid for the price. The 16-inch 1920x1200 display uses a 16:10 aspect ratio, graphics are handled by Intel Arc integrated graphics, and connectivity includes USB4 at 40 Gbps, a second full-featured USB-C port, two USB-A ports, HDMI 2.0, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.4, and a 1080p webcam with a physical privacy slider. The base configuration ships with 16GB of LPDDR5 memory and a 512GB PCIe Gen4 SSD, running Windows 11 Pro out of the box.

While burying the specific SKU name on the product page in favor of the generic Core Ultra 9 branding is a marketing choice worth calling out, it is not the only one. Despite being a Windows device, early marketing materials for the laptop also raised eyebrows by prominently displaying what appears to be Apple's macOS desktop wallpaper on the render.

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The GeekBook M16 is available on GEEKOM's store with a $100 off preorder code (GKM16), dropping the price to $799. Pre-orders are open now, and shipping is set for late June.