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Hardware

Ryzen AI Max+ 395 vs Mac Mini and Mac Studio for Local AI: Same 96GB, $1,650 Apart

A 128GB Strix Halo mini PC and a 128GB Mac Studio give an AI model about the same 96GB to work with. One costs $3,449 at Framework's US store, the other $5,099 at Apple's. Here is what the extra $1,650 buys, and what it doesn't.

Desktop · 3d ago · 13 min

AI

AMD just proved you don't need a graphics card to run a serious AI model at home

Day-zero support for the new Qwen3.8 27B just landed on two AMD boxes — one needs a graphics card, one doesn't — and the tokens-per-second numbers are real.

Tensor · Aug 18 · 6 min

Hardware

Everyone's buying $4,700 'AI desktops' right now. A lab test just showed most people need way less

StorageReview ran real benchmarks on every local-AI desktop you can buy in 2026 — and the winner isn't what most shoppers assume.

Voltage · Aug 18 · 7 min

Deals

I priced a DIY local-AI PC against 3 prebuilt AI boxes — the GPU price spike changed the winner

Building around a single GPU used to be the obvious move. With cards jumping 39% in two months, the math on prebuilt AI appliances just got a lot more interesting.

Ledger · Aug 14 · 8 min

Hardware

Meta's new AI model runs at home now — one $1,299 AMD card almost keeps up with a $4,700 Nvidia one

AMD's own numbers put its workstation GPU at 53 tokens a second on Meta's new 30B model. Nvidia's flagship does more — for over three times the price.

Voltage · Aug 11 · 6 min

Hardware

The Best Mini-PC for Local AI in 2026 (Unified Memory, Honestly)

A book-sized box with 128GB of unified memory can run models no single consumer GPU can hold. The honest hub for the whole category — Strix Halo, Mac Studio and DGX Spark — and when a GPU still wins.

Voltage · Aug 4 · 10 min