About AIPC.deals

AIPC.deals exists to answer one question properly: what computer should you buy for the AI workload you actually want to run? Most hardware coverage answers a different question. It tells you which machine scored well in a gaming benchmark, or which laptop has the thinnest chassis, and leaves you to guess whether a 70B model will load at all.

We built this as a database first. Every system on the site exists once as a record with its platform, memory architecture, bandwidth, GPU, NPU and expandability. Every page on the site, from the home page card to the leaderboard row to the comparison table, reads from that one record. If a specification has to be retyped into a page, the architecture is wrong, so we do not do it.

What we track

We track AI laptops, desktops, mini PCs and workstations that have a credible local AI story: unified-memory machines built on Ryzen AI Max and Apple silicon, NVIDIA GB10 systems, RTX 50 series desktops and workstations, and the Copilot-class thin-and-light machines that people search for under the same phrase. We include that last group deliberately, because the honest answer to the question is often that those machines run Windows AI features well and local language models poorly.

AI memory, not RAM

The number that decides what a machine can run is not system RAM and it is not always VRAM. It is the memory a model can actually occupy. On a discrete GPU that is the VRAM. On a unified-memory APU it is the slice the graphics driver will hand over. On a coherent-memory system it is nearly everything minus the operating system. We compute that figure for every machine with a published rule and we show the rule on the page.

Prices

Prices come from retailers, not from us. Amazon pricing is refreshed on a schedule through the Amazon Creators API. Prices from manufacturers that sell direct are recorded manually with the page they came from and the date they were checked. Every price on the site carries a timestamp. When a price goes stale we say so rather than showing a number we cannot stand behind, and a failed refresh never clears a price we already hold.

Who publishes this

AIPC.deals is published by Blackcedar Media Limited. The site earns affiliate commission on some outbound retailer links, which is disclosed on every page and explained in full on the affiliate disclosure page. Commission never affects a ranking. The AIPC Score is computed from hardware components and price, and the component breakdown is printed on the page so you can check the arithmetic yourself.