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Why 16GB Is Now the Real Minimum for a Laptop Built for On-Device AI

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Why 16GB Is Now the Real Minimum for a Laptop Built for On-Device AI

A laptop with 8GB of memory is no longer a sensible entry point — it is a machine that is quietly being shut out of the features vendors promote hardest. Windows 11 will still install on 4GB, but the on-device AI layer that sits on top of it now publishes a very different number: 16GB. … Read more

Neural Silicon vs. the Cloud: The Real Privacy and Battery Math of On-Device AI

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Neural Silicon vs. the Cloud: The Real Privacy and Battery Math of On-Device AI

Every time you ask a recent phone or laptop to summarise a page, transcribe a meeting or rewrite a message, a routing decision has already been made behind the scenes: part of the work runs on a dedicated chip inside your device, and part of it travels to a server. Understanding where that boundary sits … Read more