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Re:Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future h... by darkwater on Friday March 27, 2026 @10:36AM (#47543144)
1200$ as the minimum salary covers probably 70% of Europe by population?
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Re:Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future h... by NetMageSCW on Friday March 27, 2026 @10:45AM (#47543256)
The Neo has enough power to do small LLM testing and pretty much anything else a bit slowly, and costs $600?
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Re:Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future h... by 0x457 on Friday March 27, 2026 @01:08PM (#47545403)
Neo tops at 8GB RAM. What LLM are you going to run there? Functiongemma?

It can absolutely do some ML inference on it, but not much in terms of LLMs.

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Re:Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future h... by darkwater on Saturday March 28, 2026 @04:11AM (#47552585)
Maybe, but that does not mean that the Mac Studio is not very expensive hardware even for rich first world countries.
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