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Everyone seems to miss it but the article also says that M5 Ultra Mac Studio is coming out later this year. Yay! I wonder how much the rumored 768GB RAM version will cost.
Apple is actually interesting. They are one of the few companies with a chip / PC play with real power AND basically no play I'm the hyperscalar market. That means they're actually incentivized at least short term, to benefit PCs becoming strong enough to do local LLMs. Which makes this play make even more sense. Though, I've been saying for a while that the local AI inflectiom point is the death knell for these fron…
Indeed. If Apple makes it feasible to run models like GLM 5.2 at home, I will become their customer.
We need one of those specialized inference chip startups to succeed and a PC manufacturer willing to bet on them against Nvidia for the local AI to find mass market appeal.
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you're not a customer of any of their products at all already? not a single apple device in your household?
Some folks like to have a computing environment free of proprietary influences and extremely strong vendor lock-in. I cannot claim to posses any apple devices.
Sure, you can use the App Store and use all the stuff that integrates with iPhone, iCloud, etc
But you can also just treat it as Linux for Laptops (that actually works), and roll with all the standard open source tools.
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Indeed. If Apple makes it feasible to run models like GLM 5.2 at home, I will become their customer.
you're not a customer of any of their products at all already? not a single apple device in your household?
If they are pulling out all the stops to make the M7 more competitive.. guess I can wait for that?
They need to pull out of this half assed bandwagon approach.
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Indeed. If Apple makes it feasible to run models like GLM 5.2 at home, I will become their customer.
you're not a customer of any of their products at all already? not a single apple device in your household?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed. If Apple makes it feasible to run models like GLM 5.2 at home, I will become their customer.
you're not a customer of any of their products at all already? not a single apple device in your household?
Apple has pretty good competition in every segment with the exception of maybe the iPad, but I'm not a tablet user.
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Some folks like to have a computing environment free of proprietary influences and extremely strong vendor lock-in. I cannot claim to posses any apple devices.
How does the Mac have extremely strong vendor lock-in? Sure, you can use the App Store and use all the stuff that integrates with iPhone, iCloud, etc But you can also just treat it as Linux for Laptops (that actually works), and roll with all the standard open source tools.
While they don't _prevent_ Asahi from doing what they're doing, they certainly don't go out of their way to make it easy for them.