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Pocket 4: Modular full-featured Handheld AI PC

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Re: Pocket 4: Modular full-featured Handheld AI PC

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I was skeptical of the "AI" but it has 64gb of RAM and the Ryzen AI 9 HX 37 CPU, supposedly has good LLM performance [1]. So yea, its an interesting device. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/1gfr60l/ryzen_ai_300_t...

That sounds like 'running on CPU considered to be competitive to running on GPU' and my BS alarms are going off... ...buuuuut, to be fair, I don't either a) particularly care, or b) really have that much knowledge about the Ryzen AI 9 HX 37 CPU. Anyone care to point me vaguely in the direction of something meaningful that would suggest that CPU based inference would, in general, be even remotely comparable to dedicat…

Seems it shares memory with the GPU.

> GPD Pocket 4 uses LPDDR5x memory with a speed of 7500MT/s, available in 16GB or 32GB or 64GB capacities. It can allocate up to 16GB of memory to the GPU, allowing AI applications that require large amounts of VRAM to perform optimally.

16gb can run a few LLM’s with decent token/s

https://llm.extractum.io/list/?16GB

Re: Pocket 4: Modular full-featured Handheld AI PC

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doomed to failure? It's literally the 4th version of this product.

Thank you for the input, now you mention it I have heard of GPD many years ago, I didn't realise this was an existing product line. Sorry for jumping to conclusions here. "Doomed to failure" was too strong in hindsight, it seems GPD have found their niche. It does however sound like it is quite a niche. This product does have a bunch of tradeoffs that work for that niche, but that make it unlikely to be suitable for…

A product suitable for a mainstream audience is a laptop with a full sized keyboard and a 14" to 17" screen. There are already an entire market of those. I don't really understand the critique.
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