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Unless your laptop has 128GB of ram, it's not even a million 7090s.

CPU time is essentially free now. When you price e.g. cloud instances you can nearly ignore everything except RAM and non-volatile storage. If you want more than 16GB of ram you need to go for the "mobile workstation" class devices.

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CPU time is far from free unless you never needed it. W.r.t cloud pricing the expense (ime) goes:

CPU > Ram > Network > Disk(even the fastest).

That’s at least the most difference compared to a normal server or even a desktop. The markup on CPU cores in the cloud is insane.

You can get 32GB on thin laptops now. In Lenovo's range X1, T14s, and X13 all have 32GB as the maximum.

I have been running a 32 GB laptop for over 5 year now.

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