alt Hacker NewsIMO getting a studio for LLMs is a wiser choice since it doesn't heat up and there are no batteries to degrade.
For an M5 max top bin with 128GB Ram:
- mac studio: $5,899.00 (with 2TB ssd bump to match the default macbook sku)
- macbook 16: $7,399.00
Portability gets a hit but I feel you can have a thin client and let the studio do the heavy lifting back at your home/studio(heh).
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nsbk • today at 6:41 PM
I was on the market for a 128Gb M5 Max and went with the Studio + an Air for about the same money
I have a limited understanding of local LLMs, but from what I gather 128GB is not enough to match DeepSeek v4 Flash or GPT 6.1 Luna. And these models are so cheap right now. What's the use case besides having your data locally?