I Wanted the Laptop to Win (an Inference Challenge)

I have two 128 GB unified-memory machines on my desk. Day job gear, not mine. One is an ASUS Ascent GX10 — an NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell appliance half the size of a hardback book. The other is an HP ZBook Ultra G1a , a 14" mobile workstation running AMD&rsquo;s Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 (&ldquo;Strix Halo&rdquo;). Both hold an 80B coding model entirely in memory. How do they compare for agentic…