This is very false. My first system was a 3060 which you can buy new for about $300 or used for about $200. If you already have an existing system you can use it, else you can pick up a used PC for about $150. Entry is about $500.

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johndough 2 days ago | parent [-]

Perhaps OP was referring to a usable agentic system, for which $2500 sounds about right.

I've got a 3060 myself, which is nice to play around with the smaller models for free (minus electricity) and with 100% uptime, but I was not able to program anything with them yet that I didn't want to rewrite completely. A heavily quantized Qwen3.5-27B model is getting close though. Maybe in a few months.

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hparadiz 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I was actually thinking of the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 which compiles the linux kernel in 62 seconds and is the first usable integrated graphics solution I've seen.

Benchmarks: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1rpw17y/ryzen_a...

	▲	0xbadcafebee 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		What does usable mean? There have been laptops and desktops with AI-capable iGPUs and 96-12GB RAM for 2 years.
	▲	aegis_camera 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This a good platform. I was thinking about to get one

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0xbadcafebee 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Strix Halo systems were ~$1500. They've gone up in price due to demand, but that is a perfectly usable "agentic system" (whatever that means). If 128GB VRAM and a fast GPU isn't good enough, I don't know what is.

	▲	johndough 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Strix Halo systems were ~$1500. They've gone up in price due to demand The price hike has been crazy. The Bosgame M5 Mini is $2400 now. I didn't get one last year when they were $1500 because I thought the memory bandwidth was mediocre. However, it doesn't look like we'll get anything better for that price anytime soon.

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aegis_camera 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I have also 4070 laptop version during heavy discount season, before 50series came. And upgrade to 96GB DDR5 when it's cheap... So I like LFM 450M + QWEN 9B Q4, they are good fit to 8GB VRAM.