Quote from: rhtzu on September 09, 2026, 12:54:38No one looking for a cheap laptop is aiming to dabble in offline AI. Period.QuoteLenovo would probably reduce the IdeaPads to a single SO-DIMM slot.Token generation (output) solely depends on memory bandwidth (and prompt processing (input) solely depends on GPU's FPS performance / compute), so halving the SO-DIMM RAM channels will halve the token generation. Not only in an self-hosting-AI-models age is this the wrong decision.
QuoteLenovo would probably reduce the IdeaPads to a single SO-DIMM slot.Token generation (output) solely depends on memory bandwidth (and prompt processing (input) solely depends on GPU's FPS performance / compute), so halving the SO-DIMM RAM channels will halve the token generation. Not only in an self-hosting-AI-models age is this the wrong decision.