YOUR LAPTOP ISN'T READY FOR LLMS. THAT'S ABOUT TO CHANGE

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Laptop designs need to be upgraded to make running AI models locally possible. The average laptop is underpowered for large language models. The most obvious way to boost a PC's AI performance is to place a powerful NPU alongside the CPU. Another upgrade required for PCs to run AI models is a unified memory architecture that provides all system resources to the same pool of memory over a fast, interconnected memory bus.