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A comment on iPad Pro with M5 chip.

Re:iPad Pro with M5 chip by mark_l_watson on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:51AM (#45593537)
Looks wonderful but I have an old iPad Pro with an M1 and 16G memory and I already feel my old iPad Pro is powerful enough to run local LLMs, write books, use SSH/Mosh to my servers, etc.

EDIT: oh, the prices are much lower now than what I paid 3+ hears ago, that’s nice.

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Re:iPad Pro with M5 chip by cheeze on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @05:32PM (#45598592)
You're running local LLMs on an ipad?
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Re:iPad Pro with M5 chip by PoorlyNamed on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @08:56PM (#45600303)
There are a number of apps that do this.
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Re:iPad Pro with M5 chip by mark_l_watson on Thursday October 16, 2025 @09:06AM (#45604845)
as someone else mentioned, lots of apps to run local models. I also wrote my own app, in Apple’s app store, that uses Apple’s system model.
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