alt Hacker NewsI have one, and I love it. That said my buddies Mac smokes it for inference workloads in terms of tokens per second AND its more usable for other things.
If you are training and doing research it's great, if you want to cluster them it cant be beat, but if you just want local inference on a single box buy a mac or even a strix halo device.
can those macs boot linux? i've heard about Asahi but have no idea how far along they are. i've got my fleet configured with nix and sure, nix can target darwin, but there's a _lot_ of sharp edges there: i don't really want to pull that thread unless i have to...