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This computer is not a gaming machine (as they falsely advertised), because you can definitely get both more powerful and more upgradeable for less.

It is exclusively an AI computer. Its whole advantage is to provide massive high bandwidth memory. It serves only that purpose and it serves it amazingly well. For anyone else, it is not a good value proposition. But in the AI space, this machine is a fantastic value. There is nothing else out there with 128GB that even comes close in price. An RTX 5090 has 32GB and costs 2000 USD alone, without any other component. The nvidia digits probably won't have 128GB and certainly not at that price.

This competes against Apple's computers with their HBM where people run LLM lovally and it does it using many more standardized components and with a much more reasonable price.

This machine serves a niche exclusively and I don't blame anyone for dismissing it, but it's because it serves a very specific use case for which there is little to no alternatives.

Edit: yes the nvidia digits will have 128GB of shared memory, with 1 petaflops of int4 compute, source nvidia: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-puts-grace-blackwell-on-every-desk-and-at-every-ai-developers-fingertips starting at 3000 USD.