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A lazy easy cheap shot. But do you deny these aspects from the article are not coming? Or won't be still here in 5 years?

- Addition of more—and faster—memory.

- Consolidation of memory.

- Combination of chips on the same silicon.

All of these are also happening for non AI reasons. The move to SoC that really started with the M1 wasn't because of AI, but unified memory being the default is something we will see in 5 years. Unlike 3D TV.

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We just had a series of articles and sysadmin outcry that major vendors were bringing 8gb laptops back to standard models because of the ram prices. In the short term, we're seeing a reduction.

In terms of demand, anecdotally-speaking I can certainly see this influencing some decisions when other circumstances permit. Many people I know are both excited for new and better games, and equally exited about running LLM/SD/etc models locally with Comfy, LM studio and the like

Memory is absolutely not coming in the near future. Nobody can afford it.

> The move to SoC that really started with the M1

No it did not. There were numerous SoC that came before it and was inevitable in this space.

Which widely available laptops with comparable but prior to M1 SOCs are you thinking of?

x86 laptop chips have been SoCs for a lot more than 5 years

> Addition of more—and faster—memory.

probably not after scam altman bought up half the world's supply for his shit company

In order:

- People wanting more memory is not a novel feature. I am excited to find out how many people immediately want to disable the AI nonsense to free up memory for things they actually want to do.

- Same answer.

- I think the drive towards SOCs has been happening already. Apple's M-series utterly demolishes every PC chip apart from the absolute bleeding-edge available, includes dedicated memory and processors for ML tasks, and it's mature technology. Been there for years. To the extent PC makers are chasing this, I would say it's far more in response to that than anything to do with AI.

The move to SoC happened long before the M1, it was the state of things in the ARM space for over a decade, and most x86 laptops have been SoCs for quite some time.

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