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Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

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Re: Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

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Post by Keyframe »

al_borland wrote: post #158
paxys wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably worth it for Ollama but you can run Jellyfin off a raspberry pi.

> you can run Jellyfin off a raspberry pi. This may depend on the size of your library. I tried installing Jellyfin on a Synology NAS, which runs Plex just fine, and it ran so poorly it was basically unusable. It “worked”, but it was painful.

not sure which cpu that Synology has, but I run jellyfin on ugreen nasync dxp8800 plus which has intel with QSV and it breaks no sweat in both transcoding (if needed) and serving over 10GBE.

Re: Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

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Post by cute_boi »

dgellow wrote: post #46
SXX wrote: post #14

96GB -> 256GB upgrade costs 4000 GBP in UK or $5460. $34 for GB. In US its $4000 upgade so $25 for 1GB. Also: > 512GB memory option for M5 Ultra coming late October

That US price is before sales tax no?

Correct. It is better to go to delaware and purchase it.

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Post by LeoPanthera »

GreenLightGo wrote: post #132

From what I’ve noticed, Apple products have been getting worse in quality year after year. Sometimes they even ruin their own devices with updates... I guess it’s all because of marketing.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Re: Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

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Post by curious_cat_163 »

gardaani wrote: post #169

Rumors say that Apple will only release M6 base variant and skips M6 Pro, M6 Max and M6 Ultra variants to concentrate all efforts to create a good AI capable M7: "According to reports from Bloomberg, Apple will be skipping its M6 Pro, M6 Max, and M6 Ultra chips to accelerate development of the M7 chip. That means the only chip to be released from the M6 family will be the base M6. The reason for this break with tradi…

> I'd skip M5 and M6 chips for LLM work and wait for a year for M7.

Please say more? Is it because it is a one-time cost, unlike a recurring subscription of Claude/Codex?

Re: Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

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Post by mdp2021 »

jgalt212 wrote: post #73
recursivedoubts wrote: post #34

Even w/the pricing spike, inflation adjusted we are back to roughly the prices of a new Mac SE/30 for something that can beat a turing test w/o sweating. I yield the floor to no one when it comes to pessimism, but that's incredible.

when was the turing test beaten?

Or can we reframe it: when did humans start losing the (so-called) "Turing test".

I think there are elements showing lowering of performance and expectation.

Re: Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

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Post by bryanlarsen »

bayindirh wrote: post #117

I know, this is a bit of a meaningless comment, but it's funny in a way. Feels like late 90s again: - Xiaomi: We have matched Apple in CPU performance. - Apple: *Meep Meep...*

It's been really weird reading laptop reviews over the last few months. I've seen a bunch of reviews where they have their usual bar graphs comparing a bunch of laptops, and the laptop that is at the bottom is an Apple. It's the really inexpensive Neo, of course, but even the M5 laptops are consistently beat on performance and battery life by Intel Windows laptops.

I assume the M6 will take the crown back and then a few months later Intel/AMD will release a new chip and take that crown back again. That's the state of the world we used to expect, but it's a state that has been missing ever since the release of the M1 in 2020 until Intel finally caught up again this year.

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