Asus, Lenovo, and HP are selling cheap AMD Athlon Silver 10 laptops — for your own sake, do not spend your money on inferior e-waste
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Ultra-cheap, underpowered laptops are a false economy in an AI-heavy software world—two Zen 2 cores and fixed low RAM mean your agents and local models will crawl. If you’re buying fleet hardware, raise the minimum spec now or you’ll pay the tax in support tickets and unusable AI features later.
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