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by adabyron 472 days ago
I prefer laptops to be great at being mobile devices.

Running LLMs on a local mobile device doesn't make sense to me. Sure it sounds great but at what cost & what trade-offs? This goes for laptops & phones.

You can have the best of both worlds by setting up a separate computer in your local network or rent one on the cloud if data privacy & messing around with LLMs is important to you. Then you don't sacrifice the mobile advantage of a great laptop. It'll be cheaper & can be more focused too.

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I mentioned this another comment, but the LLM requirement is more of a nice to have. What's more important is the overall experience: linux support, good trackpad, nice keyboard, battery life, screen, customer support experience, etc.