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I want my next laptop to be the 128gb M series monster. That will run not quite frontier models but ones that are close in performance, and run them fast.
by api 1y ago
I want my next laptop to be the 128gb M series monster. That will run not quite frontier models but ones that are close in performance, and run them fast.
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- danielbln 1y agoAnd, also quite important, leave your system enough RAM to do anything else.
- onecommentman 1y agoI don’t know about that. Could a cheaper 2nd MacBook in all cases be used as an outboard unMath/unTPU coprocessor to handle those other tasks? (I have no clue.)
- adgjlsfhk1 1y agoare you sure? lpddr5 is somewhere in the range of ~0.25 W/GB (for some reason this stat is hard to find good values for), so 128gb of RAM will mean your laptop idles at >25 watts.
- api 1y agoTrue. But I am usually near an outlet, and with the M series even the overpowered ones just bring you back to the battery life of a good Intel laptop (3-4 hours) instead of 8+ for smaller ones. That and running local LLMs pretty much requires an outlet. The GPU goes up to 50 watts. Battery life drops from many hours to less than one.
- adgjlsfhk1 1y agothat 25 watts was just for ram. You still need another ~5 watts for cpu and display at idle, so you're talking about a laptop that lasts ~3 hours with the screen on literally doing nothing. For comparison, my 2021 XPS-13 (with a pretty small 55wH battery) lasts at least 4 hours under actual use (video playback, browsing github, compiling code etc). Also, when your laptop is using 25W just for the RAM, that's ~20 watts less that the CPU/GPU get when you want to power up the CPU/GPU.