Ollama 0.40.11 gives Windows users a desktop chat application and a local model runtime for other software. Ollama has also moved beyond its original command-line interface, adding a searchable model selector, image attachments, and links to coding tools. Some controls we needed for testing still live in PowerShell and model configuration files. We installed Ollama
The Samsung Portable SSD P9 is the company’s first USB4 portable drive, rated at 4,000MB/s read and 3,800MB/s write. That’s double the T9 it sits above. It ships in 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB capacities; the 8TB is Samsung’s first USB4 portable SSD at that size, and the 2TB unit we tested sells for $649.99
The Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 9 is Lenovo’s thin flagship mobile workstation. This 16-inch machine carries the premium features the rest of the ThinkPad P line trims to meet weight and price targets. It’s an aluminum chassis that measures 9.87mm at the front edge and weighs under 1.8kg, a 90Wh battery with 140W charging, two
The Dell Pro Precision 9 T2 is the Xeon version of the single-GPU tower we reviewed a year ago as the Dell Pro Max Tower T2, and it arrives with two changes at once: a new name, as Dell moves its workstations back under the Precision brand, and a new platform, with Intel’s Xeon 6
Open WebUI combines chat, model management, files, web search, tool calling, image support, knowledge features, and API access in one local AI interface. For this hands-on review, we focused on the Windows desktop version and used the same hardware and model files from our earlier Jan v0.8.6 testing so we could compare the two applications
The HP OmniBook Ultra 16 is HP’s 16-inch NVIDIA RTX Spark notebook, a 0.62-inch-thick laptop built around NVIDIA’s N1X superchip and a 3K OLED display. We tested two units side by side: one with the full 20-core N1X, 128GB of LPDDR5X, and a 2TB Gen5 SSD, and one with the same chip, 32GB, and a
The Lenovo Yoga 9n 2-in-1 16 puts the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X into a convertible: a 16-inch OLED touchscreen on a hinge that folds into tablet and tent modes, a pen-enabled haptic touchpad, and a 0.69-inch aluminum chassis. Our unit carries the full 20-core N1X with its 6,144-core Blackwell GPU, 64GB of LPDDR5X, and a
The Lenovo Pro 9n 15 is Lenovo’s 15.3-inch NVIDIA RTX Spark clamshell for creators, with a 165Hz 2.5K OLED display, a pen-enabled haptic touchpad, and an aluminum chassis 0.66 inches thick. Our unit carries the entry silicon: the 18-core N1X with a 5,120-core Blackwell GPU, 32GB of LPDDR5X, and a 1TB Gen4 SSD on Windows
The Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra for Business is the first Surface laptop built on NVIDIA silicon, and the first RTX Spark system to get a review from us. Our unit carries the full chip: a 20-core Grace Arm CPU, a 6,144-core Blackwell RTX GPU, and 128GB of LPDDR5X unified memory, with the user able to
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
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