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I have an AMD Framework 13 and I cannot recommend it enough. IMO there's no other laptop worth considering unless you specifically need a Mac. They fully support Ubuntu, have excellent configuration options, and are powerful enough to run small local LLMs well (Qwen 2.4 14B runs about 6 tk/s and Llama 3.2 3B at about 12 tk/s on the iGPU via Vulkan).

This laptop has been everything I wanted it to be and I look forward to upgrading it for many years to come.



I just got the AMD FW13 a few months ago, and I've enjoyed it very much as well.

It's very much powerful enough for casual Rust programming, and it looks and feels great.


How are you using the GPU on the AMD 13? Is it GPT4All with Vulkan or something?

I have struggled to get the GPU detected/used.


I use https://jan.ai/, which supports GPU acceleration via Vulkan.




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