Yikes, you broke the site guidelines badly with this post. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to them?

You're welcome to make your substantive points thoughtfully, just not aggressively.

> maybe tell us how much a non-Apple system that you can run that (probably similarly or faster) would cost?

Ryzen AI Max 395+ with 128GB of unified memory can be found around $3-4k.

But 27B isn't that large, either, especially if you are ok with the quantized models. So this laptop choice seems to more be a "because they had it" rather than "this is what's necessary for this particular workflow"