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Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social to c/hardware@lemmy.world

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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 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Ankkuli@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

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

[–] pearcake@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, Thunderbolt, I always forget which is which

[–] artyom@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

Such a great deal on a slop-generation machine!