I really doubt your claim considering how many people I've seen buy 5k Macbooks Pros with 48+ GB of ram for local inference.

500$ 32GB consumer GPU is an obvious best seller.

Thus let's call it how it is: they don't want to cannibalize their higher end GPUs.

Since I never used a laptop that was more than 2 000 euros, what a great set of salaries.

Here is a better idea what to do with all that money,

https://themarcooffset.com/