>With a laptop we're back in wait for an hour to see a result.

Any laptop within the last five years with decent memory can run stable diffusion on the cpu in around 12 minutes. My MacBook Pro runs a batch of four on Metal in around 30 seconds.

>We can revisit this if it consumer hardware gets good enough...

I mean, I just showed you a quantized llama running on a Pixel 5 and 6. And, I wouldn't discount most of the next generation of hardware having ML co processing like MacBooks and iPhones and Pixels do with all of this hype.