Hardware

An affiliate blogger’s laptop needs are genuinely different from a video editor’s or a software developer’s. No rendering, no compilation, no heavy local compute. What you’re actually doing all day: writing, researching, juggling browser tabs, running web-based AI tools, managing a WordPress site, and occasionally doing light spreadsheet work. That workload profile rewards battery life, … Read more

Running AI locally stopped being a hobbyist experiment about two years ago. In 2026, it’s a legitimate production choice — and the hardware that makes it practical has gotten remarkably affordable. We spent time testing inference performance across several mini PCs and GPU configurations with real workloads: LLaMA 3.1, Mistral 7B, and Phi-3 via Ollama, … Read more