If You Need a Laptop, Buy It Now (theatlantic.com)

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Higher-end gaming laptops are still decently priced and work well for local AI inference.

And Linux runs better than ever on them; I'm running debian 13 with almost no driver issues.

For $2k you can get 32 GB DDR5 RAM and 16 GB fast VRAM. Bump the RAM to 64 GB and you're still below $3k.

Anyone else expect prices to go down after the AI pop?

Everyone panic.

Technology for things like laptops generally gets better. I still think it's best to buy technology when you need it, not sooner.