This new 16-inch laptop comes with a ridiculous 72GB of RAM — if you are willing to wait for the upgrade
THE SO WHAT
Consumer laptops creeping toward 72 GB RAM is a quiet tell that local AI workloads are driving hardware configs. If you’re issuing dev or analyst machines, revisit your RAM and storage baselines now or you’ll bottleneck on-device models and vector-heavy workflows within a year.
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