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M4 Ultra with enough RAM will cost more than $2000. An M2 Ultra mac studio with 64GB is $3999, and you probably want more RAM than that to run bigger models tha
by seanmcdirmid 2y ago
M4 Ultra with enough RAM will cost more than $2000. An M2 Ultra mac studio with 64GB is $3999, and you probably want more RAM than that to run bigger models that the ultra can handle (it is basically 2X as powerful as the Max with more memory bandwidth). An M2 Max with 64GB of RAM, which is more reasonable, will run you $2,499. I have no idea if those prices will hold when the M4 Mac Studious finally come out (M4 Max MBP with 64 GB of ram starts at $3900 ATM).
> You can't pay Apple $4k for a turnkey solution, either.
I've seen/read plenty of success stories of Metal ports of models being used via LM Studio without much configuration/setup/hardware scavenging, so we can just disagree there.