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My 2012 laptop finally caught up with a 2024 AI tool
Read a post about local LLMs running on old hardware, tried it on my 12 year old ThinkPad from a pawn shop in Phoenix, and it handles a 7B model slow but steady, has anyone else squeezed new AI onto ancient machines?
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lucas_carr242mo ago
Old laptops are like zombies, they just keep shambling along. My buddy had an ancient Dell from like 2009 that he turned into a Minecraft server and it ran for years without complaint. The other day I tried loading a 70B model on my 2015 MacBook Air and it basically turned into a space heater, took like five minutes just to say hello. But honestly, there's something kind of cool about watching a machine that old chew through something that uses so much math. It's like watching your grandpa try to understand TikTok, slow but somehow still kind of impressive. I bet that ThinkPad of yours has more personality than half the new laptops out there anyway.
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