Comment on Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The localllama people are feeling quite mixed about this, as they’re still charging through the nose for more RAM. Like, orders of magnitude more than the bigger ICs actually cost.
It’s kinda poetic about how Apple wants to go all in on self-hosted AI now, yet their incredible RAM stinginess over the years is basically derailing that.
rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I do have a 64gb m1 MacBook Pro and man that thing screams at doing LLM AI. I use it to serve models locally throughout my house, while it otherwise still works as a fantastic computer (usually using about half the ram for llm usage). I still prefer a 4080 for image generation though.