> memory prices coming down

Are they?

I suspect AI labs are buying stuff not just for their own use, but to make local use too expensive to be an option :-( And they can always make the "best" frontier model even bigger (though only fractionally better) so it's always out of reach of local use, while consumer laptops have nearly the same amount of memory they had a decade ago.

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