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A $1,800 MINI PC RUNS CLAUDE CODE WITHOUT THE INTERNET it looks like a hardcover book sitting on a shelf, but this is the GMKtec EVO-X2, and it changes the local AI math completely built on AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395, with 128GB of unified memory shared between CPU... and GPU that shared pool is the entire trick - the model loads once, both chips read from the same address space wipe Windows, install Ubuntu, pull Ollama, point Claude Code at the local endpoint same CLI, same agent loop, nothing leaves your network Qwen3 Coder 30B and Llama 3.3 70B run comfortably, fully usable for daily development work Claude Code Max + ChatGPT Pro = $4,800/year leaving your account the box costs $1,800, electricity runs $9/month break even hits at month five after that you stop rationing tokens - overnight agents, full codebase audits, experiments you'd never start when the meter was running won't replace frontier reasoning for the hardest 5% of problems for everything else, the local stack quietly becomes the defaultshow more

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Codez3 months ago

damn bro ! this setup looks amazing, want to order this box too

wast33 months ago

it can be ordered

Dekos3 months ago

This is something new, check it out

wast33 months ago

buy one for analysing polymarket

Leisen3 months ago

The math finally makes sense

Ridark3 months ago

Saved time on production deployment thanks to his notes

wast33 months ago

it will now only take few minutes to develop

Hussain Hashim | Building SundayBack3 months ago

@0xWast3 wow, that's crazy. local AI without internet? imagine the stuff you could run at home with this. no more cloud dependence sounds like a game changer for devs and privacy nerds alike

Drew3 months ago

I need that thing 😭

wast33 months ago

Get it now so you can do everything

cvxv6663 months ago

These little boxes are producing impressive results

wast33 months ago

This maximises productivity

hammertime3 months ago

cool setup, but still not a Claude replacement for real hard stuff

wast33 months ago

for medium tasks, this’s sufficient

hammertime3 months ago

medium rare

Lummox3 months ago

That’s reality that people make more and more convenient

wast33 months ago

Soon we won’t have to do anything at all

0xSlyth3 months ago

this changes everything for dev work

wast33 months ago

with every new generation of devices, development becomes easier

shmidt3 months ago

good article

wast33 months ago

bookmark it and study

vijn3 months ago

how it's possible without the internet connection ?

wast33 months ago

special assemblies are used

vijn3 months ago

true

Insomnia3 months ago

and it's full work automated

0xbobaa3 months ago

It looks very impressive

wast33 months ago

would you buy it?

0xbobaa3 months ago

I'd love to, but I'm broke

Gipp 🦅3 months ago

GMKtec EVO-X2 is the best one so far

wast33 months ago

add Mini Mac and few LMM working together here

Archemist Bot3 months ago

claude code runs loops while you sleep

Nahid3 months ago

$1 800 for a mini PC is wild full codebase audits sound epic

Peter Morris3 months ago

Slower than a DGX Spark

Petru | Steam Vibe3 months ago

The offline claim feels optimistic. Claude Code is designed as an agentic tool that operates in the terminal and relies on cloud inference for its core reasoning loop.

xLogica3 months ago

Capital expenditure beats subscriptions

汀晴3 months ago

生活悠然自得

I'm ?3 months ago

not having to worry about token limits is a huge deal, i can already think of a few projects that would be possible with a local setup like this.

Camaleón Raro3 months ago

128GB unified memory for ,800 changes the local AI math. been running claude code on cloud instances at ~00/month — this pays for itself in 9 months. plus zero latency on tool calls. the offline angle is underrated for production debugging.

Adel Bucetta3 months ago

that changes everything. suddenly you have a machine that can run complex ai models without relying on cloud infrastructure, and that's a huge step towards truly decentralized ai computation.

安叫兽|Bird🕊️ 🔶 BNB3 months ago

离线跑 Claude 代码这说法有点玄

Gabe Astrobot3 months ago

5 month payback, stop rationing tokens and run overnight agents

Huong Analyst | Nhỏ mê ăn3 months ago

Tôi thích nó Nhưng tôi ngại vấn đề chi phí

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> you pay $5,000 a year for AI > and still ration every request > AMD just broke that math > Ryzen AI Max+ 395. 200B on one die. > EVO-X2. Claude Code. one evening. > one variable and Claude Code points at your room > nothing leaves the network. nothing on the meter. > stop paying per token stop rationing > the edge isn't the cloud. it's the meter being off.

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Gipp 🦅

459,412 views • 4 months ago

NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG UNVEILED THE RTX 3090 AND THE USED VERSION ON EBAY NOW KILLS A $400/MONTH CLAUDE CODE AND OPENAI BILL the rtx 3090 has 24gb of vram, the same as a new rtx 4090 that costs $2,000. for local ai inference vram matters more than anything else and the 3090 sells for $650-800 used it runs qwen 3.6 27b comfortably, deepseek r1 14b at 60+ tokens per second and mistral 7b for fast automation. 16gb of qwen 3.6 fits with 8gb of headroom for long context alibaba's qwen 3.6 27b beats claude 4.5 opus on realworldqa vision 84.1 vs 77.0 and on ifbench instructions 76.5 vs 58.0. a free open weight model out-benchmarks anthropic's flagship a heavy ai user pays $200 for claude code max, $200 for chatgpt pro, $20 for cursor and $20 for gemini. that's $5,280 a year and a used 3090 pays itself off in 3.5 months install ollama, pull qwen 3.6 27b, point claude code at localhost. same interface, nothing leaves the machine, nothing costs per request bookmark this and read the article below

NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG UNVEILED THE RTX 3090 AND THE USED VERSION ON EBAY NOW KILLS A $400/MONTH CLAUDE CODE AND OPENAI BILL the rtx 3090 has 24gb of vram, the same as a new rtx 4090 that costs $2,000. for local ai inference vram matters more than anything else and the 3090 sells for $650-800 used it runs qwen 3.6 27b comfortably, deepseek r1 14b at 60+ tokens per second and mistral 7b for fast automation. 16gb of qwen 3.6 fits with 8gb of headroom for long context alibaba's qwen 3.6 27b beats claude 4.5 opus on realworldqa vision 84.1 vs 77.0 and on ifbench instructions 76.5 vs 58.0. a free open weight model out-benchmarks anthropic's flagship a heavy ai user pays $200 for claude code max, $200 for chatgpt pro, $20 for cursor and $20 for gemini. that's $5,280 a year and a used 3090 pays itself off in 3.5 months install ollama, pull qwen 3.6 27b, point claude code at localhost. same interface, nothing leaves the machine, nothing costs per request bookmark this and read the article below

starmex

86,831 views • 3 months ago

$NVIDIA quietly built two desktop boxes that delete a $25,000/year AI subscription bill You don't rewrite your stack, you don't rent another data center, you just plug both into the wall and switch one line of code One looks like a deck of cards, the other like a hardback novel, together they replace ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, Cursor Pro, the OpenAI API meter, and every cloud GPU you were renting for fine-tunes It's built on the same CUDA stack the data center runs, which means once you migrate one workflow the rest follow on the same code path The reason NVIDIA shipped this is simple The bigger you scale on cloud AI, the harder you get taxed, and a one-person operator paying $2,100/month is producing exactly $0 of asset value at the end of every month And their solution is to skip the rental meter entirely, push inference back onto your desk, and let you loop agents overnight without watching a number tick on someone else's invoice This is much cheaper, faster, and pays itself back in 6 weeks for anyone already running AI for work But there is still a question nobody has answered yet, what happens when the next frontier model drops and your local 70B falls 6 months behind mid-quarter Also, technically a stack of four of the big box runs a 1.6 trillion parameter model on a desk for under $12,000 Even a fraction of that compute is more than most people will ever need in a year Bookmark this, it's worth coming back to when you have time 👇$

NVIDIA quietly built two desktop boxes that delete a $25,000/year AI subscription bill You don't rewrite your stack, you don't rent another data center, you just plug both into the wall and switch one line of code One looks like a deck of cards, the other like a hardback novel, together they replace ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, Cursor Pro, the OpenAI API meter, and every cloud GPU you were renting for fine-tunes It's built on the same CUDA stack the data center runs, which means once you migrate one workflow the rest follow on the same code path The reason NVIDIA shipped this is simple The bigger you scale on cloud AI, the harder you get taxed, and a one-person operator paying $2,100/month is producing exactly $0 of asset value at the end of every month And their solution is to skip the rental meter entirely, push inference back onto your desk, and let you loop agents overnight without watching a number tick on someone else's invoice This is much cheaper, faster, and pays itself back in 6 weeks for anyone already running AI for work But there is still a question nobody has answered yet, what happens when the next frontier model drops and your local 70B falls 6 months behind mid-quarter Also, technically a stack of four of the big box runs a 1.6 trillion parameter model on a desk for under $12,000 Even a fraction of that compute is more than most people will ever need in a year Bookmark this, it's worth coming back to when you have time 👇

ZEUS⚡️

118,817 views • 4 months ago

THIS PORTABLE HACKER KIT PACKS A RASPBERRY PI 5 WITH 16GB OF RAM AND A 512GB NVME THAT ALSO RUNS LOCAL LLMs, KILLED $200 CLAUDE CODE MAX AND $200 CHATGPT PRO SUBSCRIPTIONS THE DAY IT WENT MOBILE 00:08 he sets down the pi and starts the tour, "this is my raspberry pi 5, 16 gigs of ram, 512 gigabyte nvme ssd storage, this thing means business" the kit stacks the pi next to a bluetooth analyzer, a 5g wifi router with a battery, and a pen-testing dongle for packet injection, the whole rig runs off usb-c and fits in a shoulder bag he uses it for evil-twin wifi tests and bluetooth device audits, and the same pi 5 also handles ollama with a 7b or 14b model locally at usable speed with every packet capture staying inside the case claude code points at localhost through a single environment variable, the cli behaves identically to the cloud version except every token generates on the pi in his hand and the api bill never arrives $200 chatgpt pro and $200 claude code max used to hit the same card that pays his internet, the whole subscription stack died the day the pi got mobile and ai bills went to zero because the model runs on the same box that runs his packet capture bookmark this and read the article below

THIS PORTABLE HACKER KIT PACKS A RASPBERRY PI 5 WITH 16GB OF RAM AND A 512GB NVME THAT ALSO RUNS LOCAL LLMs, KILLED $200 CLAUDE CODE MAX AND $200 CHATGPT PRO SUBSCRIPTIONS THE DAY IT WENT MOBILE 00:08 he sets down the pi and starts the tour, "this is my raspberry pi 5, 16 gigs of ram, 512 gigabyte nvme ssd storage, this thing means business" the kit stacks the pi next to a bluetooth analyzer, a 5g wifi router with a battery, and a pen-testing dongle for packet injection, the whole rig runs off usb-c and fits in a shoulder bag he uses it for evil-twin wifi tests and bluetooth device audits, and the same pi 5 also handles ollama with a 7b or 14b model locally at usable speed with every packet capture staying inside the case claude code points at localhost through a single environment variable, the cli behaves identically to the cloud version except every token generates on the pi in his hand and the api bill never arrives $200 chatgpt pro and $200 claude code max used to hit the same card that pays his internet, the whole subscription stack died the day the pi got mobile and ai bills went to zero because the model runs on the same box that runs his packet capture bookmark this and read the article below

starmex

25,094 views • 3 months ago

AMD CEO Lisa Su just killed Nvidia’s $4,000 AI box with a $1,499 lunchbox. She walked on stage, held it in one hand, and ran a 235 billion parameter model live. No data center. No cloud. No rented GPU. The chip inside is something nobody saw coming. AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 is the first x86 silicon where CPU and GPU share the same 128GB of memory. That single trick lets a desktop run models that used to need a server rack. Out of those 128GB, Linux hands the GPU 110GB to play with. For context, an RTX 5090 gives you 32GB. A 4090 gives you 24. This box gives you more than three times either of them, in a chassis the size of a thick paperback. The benchmark that broke the room: this chip beat an Nvidia RTX 5080 by more than 3x on DeepSeek R1 inference. A $1,499 lunchbox outrunning a $1,000 discrete graphics card on a real AI workload. Nvidia spent a decade convincing the world you needed their hardware for serious AI. AMD just put that on a desk for half the price. Here is what nobody is telling you. A heavy AI user right now pays $200 for Claude Code Max, $200 for ChatGPT Pro, $20 for Cursor, $20 for Gemini. That is $5,280 a year leaving your account. The box pays itself off in 9 months and then runs free for the rest of its life. Install Ollama. Pull Qwen3 235B. Point Claude Code at localhost. Same interface you already use, except now nothing leaves your machine, nothing costs per request, and no company throttles your usage at 3am when you finally have time to build. This is the moment every AI subscription becomes optional. Lawyers stop fearing OpenAI leaks. Developers stop watching the token meter. Founders stop renting H100s for prototypes that never ship because the bill scared them. The first thousand people to figure this out will own the next two years of private AI consulting. Save this, and read the full breakdown article below you are watching the next shift hit before everyone else does.

AMD CEO Lisa Su just killed Nvidia’s $4,000 AI box with a $1,499 lunchbox. She walked on stage, held it in one hand, and ran a 235 billion parameter model live. No data center. No cloud. No rented GPU. The chip inside is something nobody saw coming. AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 is the first x86 silicon where CPU and GPU share the same 128GB of memory. That single trick lets a desktop run models that used to need a server rack. Out of those 128GB, Linux hands the GPU 110GB to play with. For context, an RTX 5090 gives you 32GB. A 4090 gives you 24. This box gives you more than three times either of them, in a chassis the size of a thick paperback. The benchmark that broke the room: this chip beat an Nvidia RTX 5080 by more than 3x on DeepSeek R1 inference. A $1,499 lunchbox outrunning a $1,000 discrete graphics card on a real AI workload. Nvidia spent a decade convincing the world you needed their hardware for serious AI. AMD just put that on a desk for half the price. Here is what nobody is telling you. A heavy AI user right now pays $200 for Claude Code Max, $200 for ChatGPT Pro, $20 for Cursor, $20 for Gemini. That is $5,280 a year leaving your account. The box pays itself off in 9 months and then runs free for the rest of its life. Install Ollama. Pull Qwen3 235B. Point Claude Code at localhost. Same interface you already use, except now nothing leaves your machine, nothing costs per request, and no company throttles your usage at 3am when you finally have time to build. This is the moment every AI subscription becomes optional. Lawyers stop fearing OpenAI leaks. Developers stop watching the token meter. Founders stop renting H100s for prototypes that never ship because the bill scared them. The first thousand people to figure this out will own the next two years of private AI consulting. Save this, and read the full breakdown article below you are watching the next shift hit before everyone else does.

AdiiX

3,397,308 views • 3 months ago

AMD on local AI: "this is the smallest AI development system in the world, capable of running models up to 200 billion parameters locally, not connected to anything" 128GB of unified memory shared by CPU, GPU, and NPU fits in your hand. Runs a model larger than GPT-3 with no internet $3,999 once. roughly $16 a month in power Cloud equivalent: up to $750 a month The question was never whether local AI could compete on power It was whether it could compete on price. Now it does

AMD on local AI: "this is the smallest AI development system in the world, capable of running models up to 200 billion parameters locally, not connected to anything" 128GB of unified memory shared by CPU, GPU, and NPU fits in your hand. Runs a model larger than GPT-3 with no internet $3,999 once. roughly $16 a month in power Cloud equivalent: up to $750 a month The question was never whether local AI could compete on power It was whether it could compete on price. Now it does

plutos

152,392 views • 3 months ago

A 23-YEARS-OLD MADE $22,500 USING MAC MINI M4 THAT CUT DEVELOPER AI CREDITS BY 80 PERCENT A typical developer spending $150 to $200 a month on Claude or OpenAI API credits can route routine work to local models and keep cloud models for hard reasoning. The stack is simple : Mac Mini M4, Ollama, LiteLLM, Open WebUI, Qwen, Llama, Gemma or Phi. The math is the hook. Electricity costs $3 to $5 a month, while cron jobs, summaries, formatting, code reviews and draft emails stop burning paid tokens. The edge is not replacing Claude. It is using Claude only where Claude actually matters.

A 23-YEARS-OLD MADE $22,500 USING MAC MINI M4 THAT CUT DEVELOPER AI CREDITS BY 80 PERCENT A typical developer spending $150 to $200 a month on Claude or OpenAI API credits can route routine work to local models and keep cloud models for hard reasoning. The stack is simple : Mac Mini M4, Ollama, LiteLLM, Open WebUI, Qwen, Llama, Gemma or Phi. The math is the hook. Electricity costs $3 to $5 a month, while cron jobs, summaries, formatting, code reviews and draft emails stop burning paid tokens. The edge is not replacing Claude. It is using Claude only where Claude actually matters.

BeingInvested

11,805 views • 3 months ago