I wanted a laptop that could run some medium sized LLMs locally and experiment with. Strix Halo is great for that. But it was also 2800 euros for a 128GB premium laptop. Not 7899 like it is now.

Shame it broke out of warranty.

I didn't get a Strix Halo laptop because it was the best bang per buck, I got it because it was an awesome machine that could do a little bit of everything, fit in a backpack and only needed 140W.

But noone should buy one at 7899, obviously. It was a tough sell for me at the old 2800 pricing.

The cheapest 128GB Macbook Pro here costs €7.949,00.

No doubt a better value than the HP, and will depreciate a lot less quickly, but just as expensive. Unfortunately, not being able to run Linux is a breaking point for me.

The device was not perfect by any means, but the ability to run fairly large models is some kind of magic.

I have yet to see a convincing proof that there is a teapot in an orbit around the sun between earth and mars.

The people who can debunk these system prompts claims have zero incentive to do so.

The fact that a lot of these "leaks" happen yet non of the prompts are the same or even seem to be different iterations of the same family of system prompts, should tell you all you need to know.

Every time it turns out to be hallucinations.

Here's the correct link for all to enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI

Used to be just a Flash animation on Weebl's stuff, but preserved on YouTube by the OG :)

For example, Honeywell acquired Garrett AiResearch, a well known manufacturer of turbochargers for combustion engines, through a series of mergers.

Later on, it loaded them up with debt (over $1.5 billion, mostly asbestos related indemnity obligations from other parts of the business), before spinning them out as an independent entity again. Two years later, Garrett filed for bankruptcy claiming it was succumbing to the unsustainable debt burden placed upon it by its former owner.

[0] https://github.com/ctxrs/ctx

I know 90% of people I've worked with will never know these options exist.

Doesn’t affect soldered memory or lower speed memory (like DDR4). Many memory controllers fail to achieve good speeds and timings at all on 4 DDR5 DIMMs, and fall back to running DDR5 at 3600MHz instead.

6 or so weeks after I returned it the kit was listed at 1499.

For a lot of people who are looking at sub $800 laptops, the option to get an Apple will probably be enough to convince them. And apart from the limited memory, it really isn't a bad buy.

I also fully expect most budget devices to ship with 8GB of memory until the end of the DDR5 crisis anyway.

Along with OpenZaurus, these early hobbyist efforts to run Linux on embedded devices formed the basis of what became OpenEmbedded and has since been renamed Yocto, still one of the most commonly used embedded Linux development platforms.

I miss those days.