Running large language models locally has become much easier over the past couple of years, but a gap remains between downloading a model and having a useful desktop environment for it. Jan describes itself as a ChatGPT alternative, offering an open-source desktop app with a familiar chat-style interface that keeps most of the setup inside
The ASUS ExpertCenter PN55 is the AMD side of ASUS’s commercial mini PC line, a 130 x 130 x 34mm box that puts a Ryzen AI 400 Series processor, two DDR5 SO-DIMM slots, two M.2 2280 slots, and dual 2.5GbE behind a fingerprint reader and a Copilot key. Our review unit runs the Ryzen AI
The ASUS NUC 16 Pro moves the NUC Pro line from a 4×4-inch footprint to 5×4 inches, and ASUS spends the extra inch on a second M.2 slot, a second 2.5GbE port, and a cooling stack of two exhaust fans, a dedicated DIMM fan, and three heat pipes. Our review unit pairs the Intel Core
We’ve taken a look at a couple of GB300 DGX Stations now, and recently had two of them physically in our lab at the same time: the ASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3 and the HP ZGX Fury AI Station. With both towers sitting next to each other, we wanted to connect them and see what
The Lenovo Yoga Mini is a 130mm aluminum puck, 48.6mm tall and about 600 grams, that fits Intel’s 16-core Core Ultra X7 358H, 32GB of LPDDR5X-8533, and Arc B390 graphics into 0.65 liters. That is the same Panther Lake silicon Intel has been shipping in this year’s thin-and-light notebooks, moved to a desk with two
The ASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3 is the second GB300 DGX Station we’ve tested and the first we’ve had hands-on in the lab; our MSI XpertStation WS300 testing ran remotely. It uses the same NVIDIA silicon we tested in the MSI XpertStation WS300: a Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip with 72 Grace cores, a B300
Mini PCs have become one of the more important segments of the client computing market. They anchor fleets of clutter-free office desks, drive digital signage and kiosks, and increasingly sit at the edge running inference close to cameras and sensors where cloud round-trips are too slow or too expensive. What the category has lacked until
HP’s ZBook Ultra G1a 14 holds the Best for Large Models spot on our Best Laptops for Local AI leaderboard because its 128GB of unified memory, 96GB of it assignable to the GPU, loaded models no discrete-GPU laptop could touch. The new HP ZBook Ultra G3a 16 raises that pool to 192GB with up to
The most common question we got about the MSI XpertStation WS300 after our review coalesces around one key theme. The GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip is a 1,300W part that normally lives in a liquid-cooled rack, so what happens to thermals when you put it in a tower? The concern is fair: a GB300 system
The Dell Pro 14 Premium is what Dell calls its ultimate commercial notebook: a 14-inch, 2.54-pound magnesium flagship aimed at highly mobile professionals rather than workstation users. It sits above the Dell Pro and Dell Pro Plus lines, and the pitch is craftsmanship and portability with enterprise security and manageability underneath, not raw compute. The
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