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Posted by Alita

- Today at 11:27:06

The price is very good for those who don't use AI or very demanding games, but I'm more in favor of waiting for what AMD will release in January 2027 with Zen 6 and its new microarchitecture; in addition, there's a jump from TSMC's 4nm to 2nm process, which produces many benefits in terms of speed improvements, lower temperatures, and higher performance.

Posted by Hilarious

- Today at 09:16:29

Quoteand up to 32 GB of RAM

Upgradable RAM, but only up to 32 GB? Hilarious.

If you plan using this laptop for AI extensively:
Since the total memory (RAM + VRAM) in this laptop does not go above 32 GB: Know that with the current SoTA, in its class size, AI LLM model Qwen3.6-35B-A3B[1] (only 3B parameters get activated per generated token -> perfect for RAM-only, no dGPU, devices), and its bang for the buck, 4-bit, quant, you will be restricted to about this amount of context:

Quote from: reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sq94qx/is_anyone_getting_real_coding_work_done_with.. 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 about running AI models locally: notebookchat.com/index.php?topic=315954.0 ("Your own ChatGPT, offline: AI without the cloud on your laptop") and comments.

[1] artificialanalysis.ai/models/open-source?models=qwen3-8-27b%2Cmuse-glimmer%2Cqwen3-6-35b-a3b%2Cgemma-4-31b%2Cgemma-4-26b-a4b (the dense 27B model is better, but it's much slower) (you can look up non-reasoning scores or other models in the table, too)

In this memory sense, any upgradable RAM + 6-8 GB VRAM gaming laptop (used for 700-800 bucks) is superior and much cheaper, even if new.

Posted by Redaktion

- Yesterday at 21:29:11

Dell has released a new 15-inch laptop internationally featuring AMD Ryzen 200 processors. Also equipped with a 400-nit display and up to 32 GB of RAM, the Dell 15 D15266 contains upgradeable RAM and storage within a housing that weighs just over 1.5 kg.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-releases-new-15-inch-laptop-internationally-with-AMD-Ryzen-processors-and-up-to-32-GB-RAM.1373226.0.html