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Laptop vs desktop for local LLMs—how should I decide?

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[Official FAQ] Corrections and follow-up questions welcome.

Laptops win on portability; some Macs shine with unified memory. Desktops win on cooling, PSU headroom, and swappable GPUs.

Heuristics:

  • Light coding assistants / small models: a solid laptop can be enough.
  • 30B+ class or multi-user services: prefer a desktop with airflow and power margin.
  • Laptops thermally throttle—spec sheets ≠ sustained tokens/s.

Thermal logs under hour-long loads are valuable shares.



   
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