Quoteup to 32 GB of RAM
Since the total memory (RAM + VRAM) in this laptop does not go above 32 GB: If you care about using this laptop for AI extensively, know that with current SoTA AI LLM model Qwen3.6-35B-A3B[1], in its class size (only 3B active parameters = fast token generation), 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=qwen3-6-27b%2Cqwen3-6-35b-a3b%2Cmuse-glimmer%2Cgemma-4-26b-a4b%2Cgemma-4-31b#artificial-analysis-intelligence-index (the dense 27B model is better, but it's much slower) (you can look up other models, or non-reasoning scores, in the table)
(Qwen3.8 release this week and will soon be added)