At the end of August, I decided that I would no longer look for small local models. I had spent about a week testing 9B-class ...

The Aoostar Maco 6850H is a powerful AMD Ryzen-powered NUC ideal for the occasional power user.

"If you quantize a model to 4-bit, VRAM usage will be roughly 1/4"—this is a feeling you naturally develop when working with local LLMs. However, when I actually ran FP16, AWQ, and GPTQ on vLLM and ...

People will be clawing to get Apple’s latest and tiniest Mac. If you want to pack more power into the Mac Mini for running demanding creative workloads or larger LLMs, Apple offers two M5 Pro ...

The new M6 Mac Mini launches next week, and it’s already hard to find. The RAM storage hasn’t just pushed prices higher—it’s also causing stock shortages before it even goes on sale. But if you can ...

Perplexity's local AI agent now supports Windows. We look at its on-device runtime design, the 24GB VRAM requirement, and ...

Nvidia has finally given us real numbers on the RTX Spark chip it announced in May 2026. At IFA 2026, the company locked in an October launch date for RTX Spark, its first-ever complete PC platform.

Choosing between the new Mac mini and Mac Studio is no longer just a question of small desktop versus powerful desktop. Apple's 2026 lineup creates a meaningful overlap between the $1,699 Mac mini ...

Perplexity is launching Portable Computer today, a version of its agentic "Computer" platform that runs entirely on hardware users already own — starting with Nvidia's DGX Spark desktop supercomputer ...

Connecting the dots: PCs without a dedicated GPU already have to share a single memory pool between graphics, AI, and system tasks, and Windows currently makes that split on its own. That arrangement ...

Gamers and game developers alike are now largely settled on 8GB of VRAM being the baseline expectation for a gaming GPU in 2026, and that's further reinforced by the latest Steam hardware survey, ...

Apple's loaded 13-inch M5 MacBook Air is down to $1,649 at Amazon and B&H, a $150 discount on the 24GB/1TB configuration in today's price war. Both Amazon and B&H are knocking $150 off Apple's latest ...