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Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork by Zetaphor on Monday August 03, 2026 @12:53AM (#49151350)
Strix Halo is the unified memory platform from AMD. Similar to the DGX Spark from NVIDIA or the M series Macs.

I personally have the Framework Desktop, but there's also systems from other brands like Bosgame

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Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork by vrganj on Monday August 03, 2026 @04:01AM (#49152621)
You can also get it in a laptop form factor that feels like a MBP with a nicer keyboard if you get an HP Zbook G1A!

Huge fan of that thing, it's th e Linux MBP I've always wanted.

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Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork by Zetaphor on Monday August 03, 2026 @08:03AM (#49154635)
While the laptop option is nice, for an inference server you're probably going to want the desktop form factor as it has significantly more thermal overhead and thus better performance. In the desktop models most of the internal volume is a gigantic heatsink
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