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Very interesting article. I'd be interested to know if a M-series Mac Mini (this article was early 2023, so there should've been M1 and M2) would have also fill
by jjice 2y ago
Very interesting article. I'd be interested to know if a M-series Mac Mini (this article was early 2023, so there should've been M1 and M2) would have also filled this role just fine.
> My preliminary speed tests were fairly slow on my MacBook. However, once I deployed the app to an actual iPhone the speed of OCR was extremely promising (possibly due to the Vision framework using the GPU).
I don't know a lot about the specifics of where (hardware-wise) this gets run, but I'd assume any semi-modern Mac would also have an accelerated compute for this kind of thing. Running it on a Mac Mini would ease my worries about battery and heat issues. I would've guessed that they'd scale better as well, but I have no idea if that's actually the case. Also, you'd be able to run the server as a service for automatic restarts and such.
All that said, a rack of iPhones is pretty fun.