Intel Panther Lake mini PCs now run 20B local AI models at 30+ tokens a second. Benchmarks, picks, the tuning trap, and who should buy or wait.
Tag: local AI
October 23 Ships a Smaller Spark. The Job Did Not Shrink With It.
Friday, October 23, NVIDIA’s partners start selling a DGX Spark with half the memory. The press line is that this is a lifeline in a brutal RAM market. I have been staring at that sentence for a week, and it does not survive contact with the spec sheet. I do not have the 64GB box …
Gigabytes Are the New GPUs: Building Local AI Rigs in the Worst RAM Market on Record
Every quarter, my team and I refresh the three parts lists we keep for readers who want a local AI machine — a budget box, a midweight tower, and a no-limits rig. It’s a two-hour ritual: re-price the CPUs, sanity-check GPU availability, argue about cases nobody sees. This quarter the ritual broke. The line item …
The Best Listener in My House Costs $20 a Year to Run
There is a small box on the shelf above my desk that has heard nearly everything I’ve said out loud for the past three months. Every voice memo, every interview, every half-formed idea muttered at the whiteboard at 11 p.m. It has never sent a single syllable to the cloud, it has never asked me …