I don’t own a laptop. I run DeepSeek-V3 IQ4_XS on a Xeon workstation with lots of RAM and a few RTX A4000s.

It’s not very fast, and I built it up slowly without knowing quite where I was headed. If I could do it over again, I’d go with a recent EPYC with 12 channels of DDR5 and pair it with a single RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell.