Re:MacBook M5 Pro and Qwen3.5 = Local AI Security System
by psyclobe on Friday March 20, 2026 @02:20PM
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Yeah but, how long do mainframes last? Think of the COBOL systems used in government. No reason to update them, they worked forever; their job is discrete and they performed it well enough where intense updating wasn't a requirement.
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Re:MacBook M5 Pro and Qwen3.5 = Local AI Security System
by icedchai on Friday March 20, 2026 @02:33PM
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You also need to ask: How much do mainframes cost? They were engineered for backwards compatibility and reliability, with built in redundancy you don't find in consumer hardware.
AI models are changing every other day. I have to rebuild llama.cpp from source regularly. We are no where close to a personal "AI mainframe."