This. Even two or three years people were pointing out "The ChatGPT subscriptions you can buy with $2000 give you much more compute than whatever home setup yo

This. Even two or three years people were pointing out "The ChatGPT subscriptions you can buy with $2000 give you much more compute than whatever home setup you come up with" on r/LocalLLM. I did my own elementary school maths and came to the same conclusion. Yet till this day people still boast how their beefy M4 Pro/Max machine with 32+GB RAM (which is not at all a "normal person's setup" and costs $2000+) runs LLMs smoothly, and "that's the future". Someone needs to re-learn basic maths and take a walk around Best Buy to understand what "consumer laptop" looks like.