You may be partially right, to be fair, this laptop isn't exactly an average one + the RAMageddon. That being said, its 128 GB RAM don't offset running a 27B dense LLM model vs a 122-10A MoE LLM model:
Quote from: yee on Yesterday at 12:50:12[..] And now the major Strix Halo limitation: Only up to 128 GB RAM/unified memory. This does not offset the switch from a dense LLM to a MoE LLM: Qwen3.5-27B (27 GB at q8 quant) performs slightly better than Qwen3.5-122B-A10B (122 GB at q8 quant). The 122B runs 27B/10B = 2.7 times faster, fine, but it performs slightly worse than the 27B dense AND the RAM prices have since increased by like 4 times. So, Strix Halo's 128 GB RAM, at 256 GB/s, are neither here, not there. What is really needed is at least a 192 GB Strix Halo, then it could run a quant of the better than 27B dense performing MoE models (at least according to AA), like DeepSeek V4 Flash, MiMo-V2.5 and Minimax-M2.7 and a 256 GB RAM (yes, RAM prices..) config would fit Minimax-M3 and probably some others that are not in this: [..]