Does SA really care about people running local models, though. I think he cares about all the rooms in institutional or enterprise settings that run those tiny, ancient square PCs from HP or Dell (medical intake, classrooms, admin assistants/clerks) that would look at the difference between replacing each PC in this "supply-constrained environment" - what's getting at me is the idea of what something like a "hybrid environment" would look like for funding-strapped orgs who are facing a refresh schedule.

The "it makes no sense" rhetoric has been around for a couple of years now, I guess the, uh, charm offensive is about substantiating valuation or something. But in a way this is the most good-faith argument I've heard from this dolt (SA, not you). In a lot of ways we've obscured the computer per se from the people who depend on it in the org, they might as well be using a thin client for all they know or care about the box itself.

This is an ad, also.