alt Hacker NewsLast year you could buy a AI Max 395+ with 128G for 2.5k, now it's almost $4k.
Or maybe you're right, I originally remembered 2k as well. I wanted to wait for the AI Max 395+ upgrade of my laptop, and now it makes no sense to upgrade.
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I think people buying laptops for AI use are, sorry, just plain crazy. You overpay for the screen and keyboard and battery and whatever, plus you get much worse thermal performance because of basic physics (area vs volume). My Framework Desktop has a Noctua cooler which works really well.
[Tangent: all my life I've been downvoted into a smoking hole in the ground, particularly on reddit r/hardware, for questioning the wisdom of laptops for high performance computing, including gaming. Everyone insists they need the mobility, and then just leave it plugged in the whole time, absolutely refusing to admit it's about aesthetic preference.]
The cheapest ones with 128GB were 1580€/$1840 as late as mid December.
> Last year you could buy a AI Max 395+ with 128G for 2.5k, now it's almost $4
Only if you pay the Framework premium.
https://www.bosgamepc.com/products/bosgame-m5-ai-mini-deskto...
I don't have access to the USD price, but it's 2500€ (tax included), up from 1600€ in November when I ordered mine.