Firstly AMD and NVidia both have a range of cards with different power levels. Getting a card with 8G that uses the 75W available from the PCIe slot should be possible.

A card that is setup for ML isn’t necessarily going to work well for desktop use. I currently have a NVIDIA card in my workstation setup for ML and it gives 0.2fps on games. I installed the NVIDIA card because the AMD card died and decided to play with ML on it.

I think the best thing to do is to use a separate PC for ML.

A year ago I was working for a company that used such PC in the cloud services. 10 months of renting that cost about the same as buying an equivalent laptop. It wasn’t good.

If you mostly need a machine for word-processing and do something intense for an hour a week there might be a possibility of saving money, but for regular use no way.

Also if you have an office where people occasionally need a powerful system then just buy one powerful PC and have them share.

7430 is a nice system. I’ve done a lot with 7400/7410/7420 systems and some of my friends use them daily for programming.

Sure 16G is a restriction in some ways and some compilers take so much ram that make -j10 will fail on 16G but it’s still pretty decent.

What OS are you using? Linux works nicely on 16G, Windows is usable but not so good.

Yes that’s someone who’s comfortable with racism.

https://etbe.coker.com.au/2025/12/22/samsung-8k-tv/ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2025/11/25/edid-and-my-8k-tv/ As a final note on this issue, it seems that “8k TVs” sold in Australia don’t actually do 8k, just scaled up 4k at best. So I now have a few devices that can allegedly output 8K but no way of knowing for sure if they can actually do so.

The last times I’ve bought ThinkPad motherboards they were under $100…

He created an environment that he’s comfortable with. If he didn’t like racism his discord would be different.

What parts of the Linux community do you see this in?

The parts I’m in have no Nazis and not much right wing support because right wing nowadays trends Nazi.

There’s really no difference between running Linux on desktop and laptop systems. As you have done it in a desktop the laptop will really be no big deal for you.

Sometimes drivers aren’t quite as good and maybe battery life won’t be as great. But laptop batteries last for ages nowadays so even a small reduction won’t hurt for most uses.

I’ve run a fleet of Linux laptops when doing corporate IT department work and run more than a few for myself and helped out friends. Generally everything works well enough.

Debian has an option to anonymously report packages installed. There’s a question about this at install time and at any time you can install or uninstall the popularity-contest package.