After 18y of thinkpads, this year I bouth a Lenovo yoga for... Cheap (1000€).

32G RAM, nvme 1TB, core ultra 258V.

Looking at the prices now... Wow, was I lucky.

Tried some of the 7b models locally, more than usable, around 30token/sec, not with the NPU, but using the ARC integrated GPU.

I am a noob for this, but I guess it's time to experiment more with this local setup