Comment by iso1631

More than "a 3 year old laptop is fine"

My thinkpad is nearly 10 years old, I upgraded it to 32GB of ram and have replaced the battery a couple of times, but it's absolutely fine apart from that.

If AI which was leading edge in 2023 can run on a 2026 laptop, then presumably AI which is leading edge in 2026 will run on a 2029 laptop. Given that 2023 was world changing then that capacity is now on today's laptop

Either AI grows exponentially in which case it doesn't matter as all work will be done by AI by 2035, or it plateaus in say 2032 in which case by 2035 those models will run on a typical laptop.