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749 for an M4 air at Amazon right now

• tossandthrow 10mo ago
  Try running anything interesting on these 8gb of ram. You need 96gb or 128gb to do non trivial things. That is not yet 749 usd
  • jki275 10mo ago
    64gb is fine.
    • kibwen 10mo ago
      This subthread is about the Macbook Air, which tops out at 32 GB, and can't be upgraded further. While browsing the Apple website, it looks like the cheapest Macbook with 64 GB of RAM is the Macbook Pro M4 Max with 40-core GPU, which starts at $3,899, a.k.a. more than five times more expensive than the price quoted above.
      • jki275 9mo ago
        I have an M1 Max w/ 64gb that cost me much less than that -- you don't have to buy the latest model brand new.
    • seanmcdirmid 10mo ago
      if you are going for 64GB, you need at least a Max CPU or you will be bandwidth/GPU limited.
  • badc0ffee 10mo ago
    Fair enough, but they start at 16GB nowadays.
  • kylec 10mo ago
    The M4 starts with 16GB, though that can also be tight for local LLMs. You can get one with 24GB for $1149 right now though, which is good value.
    • almosthere 10mo ago
      899 at B&H started today 12/24