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@@ -86,6 +86,11 @@ current task at hand. Can easily handle multi-file projects.
 
 2026-10-18, checking the actual RAM usage of the models...
 
+Main laptop has about 60GB of headroom, prefer only using 55GB to be safe.
+Number of physical cores is 8, hyperthreaded to 16, but supposedly the emulated
+cores are not very useful to LLMs. Try only using between 6 and 8 when possible.
+Research says it is not worth enabling the iGPU for Intel XE, CPUs are better.
+
 ### `ollama_sizes m 16000`
 
 | Model Name                |     HDD (ls) |  Context |     RAM (ps) |