I mean, that depends somewhat on your use case. My primary development machine -- a Framework with a recent board and 32GB of RAM -- is perfectly capable of run

I mean, that depends somewhat on your use case. My primary development machine -- a Framework with a recent board and 32GB of RAM -- is perfectly capable of running smaller models on CPU, and while it's certainly easy to find where the ceiling is (and this obviously isn't the hardware profile of an average user), it's still more than sufficient for basic use Even if it does also chew through my battery...