You can run giant models on a high-end laptop today... they'll just be slooooowww since you'll be doing things like swapping data in/out and leveraging the CPU.

You can run giant models on a high-end laptop today... they'll just be slooooowww since you'll be doing things like swapping data in/out and leveraging the CPU. If you don't mind waiting an hour for a prompt response it can work. It's the same as it's always been. Any general purpose computer is Turing complete. Spending more gets you faster results.