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Imagine buying hardware that will be obsolete in 2 years instead of paying Anthropic $200 for $1000+ worth of tokens per month
by artursapek 10mo ago
Imagine buying hardware that will be obsolete in 2 years instead of paying Anthropic $200 for $1000+ worth of tokens per month
- selcuka 10mo ago> Imagine buying hardware that will be obsolete in 2 years Unless the PC you buy is more than $4,800 (24 x $200) it is still a good deal. For reference, a MacBook M4 Max with 128GB of unified RAM is $4,699. You need a computer for development anyway, so the extra you pay for inference is more like $2-3K. Besides, it will still run the same model(s) at the same speed after that period, or even maybe faster with future optimisations in inference.
- hu3 10mo agoThe value depreciation of the hardware alone is going to be significant. Probably enough to pay for 3x ~$20 subscriptions to OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini. Also, if you use the same mac to work, you can't reserve all 128GB for LLMs. Not to mention a mac will never run SOTA models like Opus 4.5 or Gemini 3.0 which subscriptions gives you. So unless you're ready to sacrifice quality and speed for privacy, it looks like a suboptimal arrangement to me.
- dchftcs 10mo agoI suspect depreciation will be a bit slower for a while, because there is a supply crunch.
- artursapek 10mo agoYeah, didn't even mention the fact that you can't Opus on your own hardware. Total waste of cash.