The lack of a dedicated GPU on a laptop means you’re fresh out of luck when it comes to running local LLMs on your machine, but an old Lenovo notebook owner didn’t give up because he had one trick up his sleeve; using the available M.2 slot to attach his desktop AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT. Unfortunately, since there was only one slot, the user had to be clever and employ an external drive to boot Windows from. In the end, he achieved his goal of obtaining decent performance in Qwen3.6 27B. Thanks to the RX 7900 XT’s 20GB GDDR6 […]
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