what hardware should i buy to run LLMs locally?

naive question, i know, but i don't have a good sense of where to start. are there useful public guides for deciding? the state of the art is changing rapidly, so figured i'd ask here first...

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Best resource for running LLMs at home

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA

Mac mini M4 or 2 running with Exo.
A (extreme) example below

Mac mini M4 or 2 running with Exo.
A (extreme) example below 
 https://x.com/victortaelin/status/1901683454321791066?s=46&t=K4GIh0DK9OyTnjBcntN7qA