In Reply to: Sam Altman says quiet part out loud posted by russsmith on October 30, 2026 at 18:20:22
It's a lenovo thinkpad. It is intended as a "work station". I need power and memory because most of the time I have a form of virtual machine running in the background (an instance of docker). My previous laptop was a 10 year old thinkpad with 4 chips and 32GB ram and it kept choking when I streamed or doing a video call. So I had to up that with a new,super duper, and absolutely gorgeous 12 chip setup but the default 16GB was not going to cut it. I wanted 64GB ram.
That little addition to the laptop added about $1k more to he price. Mind boggling. My last laptop was also 16GB default and moving that up to 32 added 100 or 150 bucks at most.
My son later told me that memory is very expensive these days because they're in very high demand at data centers. It figures.
So f*ck Sam Altman and the horse he rode in on.