Re:New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
by jdcasale on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @09:32AM
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I'd consider a 1tb machine at 20k, but I'm not going to pick up a 256gb one at all. 1TB fits a frontier-ish model in memory without massive quantization, which is a very interesting capability for a non-rack piece of compute.
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Re:New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
by epolanski on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @10:26AM
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But why...?
At that point just rent proper GPUs in the cloud, you'd have way more power and pay only what you use for.
Re:New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
by albrewer on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @05:11PM
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Because I spent $15k in AI costs last month doing real work at my day job; I'd like to do the same thing for myself but I don't like lighting cash on fire.
Re:New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
by jdcasale on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @10:19AM
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I think that within the next year or two we'll have the ability to put a frontier-class model on our desks, and I like the idea of playing around with that today to get ahead of it. I could be wrong, I often am.
I'm not optimizing for $$$ spent today and agree that this isn't the cheapest solution to a specific capability problem, but I don't super mind paying for a cool piece of compute that I can do some fun (and educational) stuff with.