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Strix Halo vs the Mac for Local AI: The 128GB Matchup, in Other People's Measured Numbers
Our MoE-era piece ended in a buying rule: capacity first, bandwidth second. In practice, that points most people at one memory tier, 128GB of unified memory, and two very different ways to buy it: an AMD Strix Halo mini-PC or a Mac. Which one wins is the
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GMKtec EVO-X3 Tested by Wendell: The Fastest Strix Halo Yet, and Its Unholy OcuLink Trick
The 128GB unified-memory tier is where local AI's action is right now, and GMKtec just reshaped its best-known box. The EVO-X3 takes the same Ryzen AI Max+ 395 platform as the EVO-X2 we covered and rebuilds it as a tower with one genuinely new trick: an O
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What "Open Weights" Lets You Do: The 2026 Model License Map, Read From the Actual Texts
Every model on our latest-models page has the same download button. The rights that come through that button are wildly different, and 2026's releases have quietly split into camps. Across the 27 recent models our hardware guides track, 13 ship under Apac
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The Attention Rebuild: How 2026's Open Models Made 1M Context Fit on Machines You Own
Every headline model of 2026 advertises a million-token context window: Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4, Inkling, Nemotron 3. Not long ago that number would have been a joke for local hardware, and our own KV cache explainer spelled out why: on a classic dense trans
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DeepSeek V4 Flash Tested: Frontier-Class Coding for 79 Cents a Day, and It Runs on a 128GB Box
A 284-billion-parameter model spent a full day being stress-tested with agentic coding tasks, and the total API bill came to 79 cents. That detail, almost a throwaway line in Bijan Bowen's video, is the story of DeepSeek V4 Flash in miniature: frontier-ad
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