Buy a Framework Desktop with 128 GB instead. It's half the price, and though I bought it for even less before RAM prices went crazy.

You can buy a used GPU for under 400 dollars if you already have a desktop and run qwen 3.6 a3b and for a majority of frontier tasks get by just fine. Why do you need to spend 10k on a laptop, we are swimming in ewaste.

But what if you were going to buy a laptop anyway? Obviously you can't do anything with less than 64 GBytes these days, so the question is just whether you go for the jump to 128.

In the UK, it's currently an extra £800 to get a 128 GB vs the 64 GB equivalent. So that's more like 3 years of Claude - I think? - assuming current prices stay the same.

Or: you might just feel like £800 isn't an unjustifiable amount of money (one way or another), and tick the box, on the basis that it might just work out. As the saying goes, in for 459,900 pennies, in for £5,399...

You are assuming I'd only get it for that. That would probably just be the straw that broke the camels back, but I'm already thinking about a purchase even if that doesn't work out.

You have to use the item a lot, to the point where you'd be exceeding subs a lot

This is one of the best takedowns of local models I've ever seen.

I just hate paying money for cloud subscriptions, and work has given me a decent laptop