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Indeed. If Apple makes it feasible to run models like GLM 5.2 at home, I will become their customer.
by matheusmoreira 4mo ago
Indeed. If Apple makes it feasible to run models like GLM 5.2 at home, I will become their customer.
- jeron 4mo agoyou're not a customer of any of their products at all already? not a single apple device in your household?
- matheusmoreira 4mo agoCorrect. Been using Linux and Android for over ten years. My household had no Apple devices until I got married.
- AgentElement 4mo agoSome folks like to have a computing environment free of proprietary influences and extremely strong vendor lock-in. I cannot claim to posses any apple devices.
- rjrjrjrj 4mo agoHow does the Mac have extremely strong vendor lock-in? Sure, you can use the App Store and use all the stuff that integrates with iPhone, iCloud, etc But you can also just treat it as Linux for Laptops (that actually works), and roll with all the standard open source tools.
- seabrookmx 4mo agoI don't disagree with you, but technically speaking MacOS is still proprietary and Asahi is not compatible with the latest and greatest Apple devices. While they don't _prevent_ Asahi from doing what they're doing, they certainly don't go out of their way to make it easy for them.
- rjrjrjrj 4mo agoI wasn't thinking of Asahi. Just pointing out that you can run all the standard unix/open source tools and apps on Mac OS (vi, git, qgis, blender, vsc, python, node, etc). With the advantage of higher quality hardware and generally less fiddling. But if you don't like it, switch. I don't see vendor lock-in.
- rhdjcnfj373 4mo agoA lot of convenient things come with the lock-in if you have >1 device Notes sync, Copy/Paste would be hard to give up and took zero effort
- nicoty 4mo agoI don't now how the MacOS equivalent compares, but Linux/Windows has KDE Connect that I use for that https://kdeconnect.kde.org/ https://kdeconnect.kde.org/
- croes 4mo agoApple is also iOS
- NamlchakKhandro 4mo agoNot. A. Single. One.
- esperent 4mo agoNo, I've never owned an Apple device in my life, neither has anyone in my family to my knowledge.
- seabrookmx 4mo agoI didn't have a single Apple device in my house until a month ago when I bought a Neo. The last Apple devices I had before that were an iPod Nano and a PowerMac G5 many many years ago. Apple has pretty good competition in every segment with the exception of maybe the iPad, but I'm not a tablet user.
- fhn 4mo agothere a many people who don't own Apple. Why are you so surprised? I certainly don't and never will. What's it got that I can't get on a standard PC + Linux?
- kombine 4mo agoNone. And I have a PC, a personal laptop, a work laptop, my current and my previous Android phone.
- nchmy 4mo agoWhat a bizarre bubble you live in to even be asking this question... I've never owned a single apple product, and never will. And in the rare occasions in which I have to use someone's MacBook, I'm completely lost - like some elderly person.
- Abishek_Muthian 4mo agoIt's plausible but is the Apple Tax for a 1TB memory machine on top of current memory prices really worth it? I paid around $4000 for 4090m laptop with 16GB VRAM back in 2023, it's great but DoA for even quantized LLMs. I can run SLMs and fine tune it but that's it. We need one of those specialized inference chip startups to succeed and a PC manufacturer willing to bet on them against Nvidia for the local AI to find mass market appeal.
- lowkeyokay 4mo agoI recently bought a Mac mini M4 16 GB - mostly to run Immich. I assumed I needed a Linux box. After a lot of researched I was quite surprised that the mac was the cheapest option. So not always an Apple tax.
- ramesh31 4mo ago>" After a lot of researched I was quite surprised that the mac was the cheapest option. So not always an Apple tax." Apple has always been the most cost effective choice for the value you get going all the way back to the Apple II, it's just that the floor of that cost has always been high. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a just a fanboy one way or the other.
- Abishek_Muthian 4mo agoThat's true only for the entry level macs. My M4 Mac Mini has the best Performance/value. But my workstation laptop with 32 cores, 96GB DDR5, Nvidia GPU costs lesser than Macs with lesser performance; not to mention I upgraded the RAM post purchase.