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dannywtoday at 2:21 PM1 replyview on HN

I dunno, Apple's been throwing many bones to their customers who use their Macs for AI stuff; like Apple working with, and signing TinyGPU's NVIDIA eGPU drivers.

Plus introducing features like RDMA over thunderbolt, which is critical for distributed inference/training/etc. On the software side, Apple is investing heaps.

It's still ridiculous they don't support expandable NVMes, but the memory being soldered makes sense, you need it for 1.2TB/s bandwidth.

They are still selling high-margin hardware. Apple loves selling high-margin hardware.


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gauntrtoday at 2:52 PM

Wow, didn't know this exists. So instead of ditching my M1 Pro Macbook for a newer one with more RAM and power I could do this instead (if reasonable regarding pricing).

EDIT: AMD too, it's not limited to Nvidia, nice.