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Announcements this week were mostly business as usual, but Apple isn't immune.

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[-] pearcake@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Macs have unified RAM and a special MLX framework for AI purposes tailored to their M chips, which makes it possible running full sized ChatGPT/Gemini/Deepseek level LLMs locally without serious limitations. You can also join 4 macs using lightning port and make a cluster for LLM/image/video generator model. It’s a real bang for buck stuff compared to other platforms for personal use. So they disappeared because they are mostly sold out, even after price increase.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 9 points 2 months ago

Such a great deal on a slop-generation machine!

[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

Macs don't have Lightning ports. I don't think they ever did. Mac keyboards and mice used to.

...I think you mean Thunderbolt, which looks like USB-C and carries something like 40Gbps bandwidth.

[-] pearcake@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, Thunderbolt, I always forget which is which

[-] Ankkuli@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Thunderbolt doesn’t just look like USB-C, it is USB-C.

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