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This is clickbait. I can run Stable Diffusion (and PyTorch, and so on) on my M1 Pro just fine, although you do have to know what you are doing. Although it is
by rcarmo 4y ago
This is clickbait. I can run Stable Diffusion (and PyTorch, and so on) on my M1 Pro just fine, although you do have to know what you are doing.
Although it is true that an Intel machine with a dedicated GPU is just “easier” and can be assembled for far less (I did just that a month ago: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2023/02/18/1845 https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2023/02/18/1845), none of the other criticisms are valid and seem to stem from a lack of understanding of how to actually use the machine and what it excels at (I intend to get one myself, despite having built a CUDA box, because it excels at audio and video editing).
The only thing that is worth taking away is that Apple kneecaps the entry-level M2 Pro configuration with only 512GB of storage (it should start at 1TB).
Classic case of “holding it wrong” and doing it for the clicks/viewers/controversy.
- 112233 4y agoAbout mac storage — buy large high quality nvme, 40Gbps thunderbolt 3 enclosure for it, install your system there. Perfomance is very acceptable (~50% of the internal bandwidth, sorry no idea on latency) BUT you can simply take and boot it on any other M1/M2 mac if something happens.
- rcarmo 4y agoBooting off an external drive is not that simple these days.
- 112233 4y agoI was trying this and that, and what worked for me was having an external PCIe drive (thunderbolt+nvme). Then booting on another mac involved a series of reboots into recovery to pick that drive (no idea what is goong on there) every time the drive was connected to another mac, but, on the whole, I do not remember having troubles. I did not manage to boot from USB drive at all.