yeah, i'm eyeing that new steam box... looks like it would be more than adequate for dev work as well as gaming, and then one of those new AI mini pcs with the GDDR7 memory and cancel my AI subscriptions forever. and i'm just thinking now about how great that little box will be for LAN parties. with one of those and my FHD portable monitor i'd be good to go for almost anything.

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Heck yeah!! For AI stuff, I recommend the Framework desktop. It's more powerful and very capable with the new Mistral LLMs, and Framework is especially pro-consumer since the hardware they sell is all open source and modular, super easily serviceable, even for their laptops, and they bootstrapped a marketplace for parts for their laptops, which is badass. Compare the performance though and weigh the costs and benefits to you. I haven't looked super hard into the specs myself since I'm not in the market for a new desktop system right now. https://frame.work/desktop