> For $10k, you too can get the power of a $2k desktop,

Even M1 MBP 32GB performance is pretty impressive for its age and you can get them for well <$1K second hand.

I have one.

I use these models: gpt-oss, llama3.2, deepseek, granite3.3

They all work fine and speed is not an issue. The recent Ollama app means I can have document/image processing with the LLM as well.