1d ago

Folks not buying PCs from US vendors 'tariff' stockpiles

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"Why aren't flat broke US consumers buying our premium AI PCs that offer literally no advantages over their current hardware, and also include horrific spyware?"
- Ai pcs are actually being bought. most of the pcs being used for local AI purposes are fully rammed out mac mini/studios or strix halo desktops, which are almost solely sold by smaller oems and are backed up.
  most AI pcs arent the ones the large oems clamour about (basically unused NPUs, and to a lesser extent, nvidia based computers with high vram gpus)
  the latter doesnt offer the vram required for the people who want to do in house Ai.
I'm waiting for the "not compatible with Windows 11" secondhand hardware dump myself.
And this situation is likely not helped by the vendors betting big on so-called AI PCs selling like hot cakes, despite the fact that there is no killer app for these devices, they carry a premium price tag, and the industry can't even agree on a standard hardware specification.
The frame.work desktop with the AI capabilities has sold out into where they are now taking orders in what is clearly the "we'll take your money but don't hold your breath" batch. The difference is it has 128GB of VRAM and it costs $2,000. In other words it seems like a sensible thing to buy if you actually want be able to do AI stuff, instead of whatever unwanted nonsensical trinkets these other people are trying to shoehorn into their shoddy products.