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Show HN: Panda, the world's first personal AI computer

8 points · 54 comments · moezee1

  1. blakeashleyjr · · focus · HN ↗
    No way I can put any money down without knowing the specs. Unless I am missing something, I didn't see anything on the homepage.
    1. moezee1 · · focus · HN ↗
      Hi,

      We left the specs out because the landing page was made for non-technical consumers who aren't aware of the hardware required in general.

      Here are the specs: Processor (SoC): AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Memory: 128 GB LPDDR5X-8000 Motherboard: custom Storage: NVMe SSD, 4 TB: WD_Black SN850X 4TB

      Rest is basic: ethernet, usb c ports, wifi module, power supply

      Inference engine: llama.cpp

      Models: A fast default for chat, email and calendar: a 30B-class mixture-of-experts model like Qwen3-30B-A3B. A larger model for harder tasks: gpt-oss-120b. A coding model: Qwen3-Coder-Next.

      The late release date is specifically to fine tune the experience for the non technical consumer, someone who wouldn't know what model to switch to for what task. We want this to be a seamless out of the box experience. UI/UX is very important here. Another reason for the late release is the chip cant be bought off the shelf and need AMD to sell us the chip at a certain volume

      1. UncleMeat · · focus · HN ↗
        So you are targeting the market of non-technical users who don't care about the basic specs for a computer and care so deeply about privacy that they are also willing to spend three thousand dollars on a device that won't arrive for another year or more?

        Every single non-technical user I can think of would either say "why should I buy this if chatgpt is free" or "ai is dumb and I don't want to use it."

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