I do think people are going a little overboard with all the commentary about AI in this discussion, and you rightly cite some of the empirical reasons. People a

I do think people are going a little overboard with all the commentary about AI in this discussion, and you rightly cite some of the empirical reasons. People are trying to rationalize convincing themselves to buy one of these, but they're deluding themselves. It's nice that these devices have loads of memory, but they don't have remotely the necessary level of compute to be competitive in the AI space. As a fun thing to run a local LLM as a hobbyist, sure, but this presents zero threat to nvidia. Apple hardware is irrelevant in the AI space, outside of making YouTube "I ran a quantized LLM on my 128GB Mac Mini" type content for clicks, and this release doesn't change that. Looks like a great desktop chip though. It would be nice if nvidia could start giving their less expensive offerings more memory, though they're currently in the realm Intel was 15 yearsago, thinking that their biggest competition is themselves.