Several Mac mini and Mac Studio configurations are “currently unavailable” from Apple. No delivery estimate. No order option. The affected models include the Mac mini with 32GB or 64GB of RAM and the Mac Studio with 128GB or 256GB. Apple had already removed the…
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The M5 vs. M6 MacBook Pro Buyer’s Dilemma
This post brought even more questions about M5 vs M6 MacBooks Pro. The timing is weird this year. The M5 MacBook Pro arrives soon. (Likely March 4!) The M6 arrives later in the year with a completely new design and OLED display. You could…
Continue reading →Why the M5 Matters If You Run AI Locally
Apple says the M5 delivers 4X the peak GPU compute for AI compared to the M4. Most tech sites reported the number and moved on. I don’t think people have fully grasped what this means for running AI locally. The gain isn’t just faster cores. Apple…
Continue reading →The M5 Pro and Max Are Going to Be Monsters for Local AI
Back in November, Apple quietly published a research article about the Neural Accelerators in the M5 chip. The numbers are wild. The base M5 MacBook Pro already delivers up to 4x faster time-to-first-token compared to the M4 when running large language models through MLX.…
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