"Reviewing a Linux-powered laptop or PC is always a breath of fresh air to me, because I know the OS very well (so I know exactly what to expect) and it's almost always a positive experience from start to finish. The NX Gen3 was no exception. The model I received housed an Intel Ultra 7 255H, Arc T140 8 Xe CPU/GPU, with 32 GB of RAM and Mesa Intel graphics, which runs around $1,230."
"Of course, it's KDE Plasma, so the desktop is glorious. And, yes, it defaults to a dark theme, which I immediately customized. As soon as I had that taken care of, I ran the available updates (which took all of three minutes) and set out to do the one thing I always do when testing a new PC: pushing it to its limits. How? These days, that's quite easy. I installed Ollama, pulled the llama3.2 LLM, and ran a query."
NX Gen3 boots Kubuntu quickly and presents an onboarding wizard that allows setup in under two minutes. The configuration includes an Intel Ultra 7 255H with Arc T140 8 Xe CPU/GPU, 32 GB RAM, and Mesa Intel graphics, with pricing around $1,230 and upgrade options up to 96 GB RAM and 4TB storage. KDE Plasma provides a polished desktop with a default dark theme and fast updates that installed in about three minutes. Performance testing with Ollama and the llama3.2 model returned rapid responses, indicating strong local AI capabilities on the hardware.
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