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It's a desktop, they're repairable unless you solder something in.
They could've gone with any other chipset, making the whole thing irrelevant to begin with, but they couldn't please the AI crowd that way.
By similar devices I obviously mean ITX PCs with similar chipsets. The average PC isn't giving you 128GB of VRAM for $2k.
Local AI is a difficult thing to do right now, making a product to allow people to use AI without giving up their privacy is great.