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andaitoday at 12:47 PM1 replyview on HN

Yeah, a better metric might be, the difference in cost between the laptop you need to run local models, and the laptop you would have bought anyway.


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fwipsytoday at 2:12 PM

The base 14" m5 MacBook pro is $1700 with 16gb/1tb. The author's spec is $4300 - $2600 more.

It depends on how often you use it (and your tolerance for slow inference) and whether you would have otherwise bought a higher spec. For my needs, this costs a LOT more.