Woot! has
Apple MacBook Pro (Factory Reconditioned; Open Box, MKGR3LL/A) on sale for
$1212.49.
Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member
Dr.Wajahat for finding this deal.
Specs:- Apple M1 Pro Processor, 8-cores, 3.2GHz
- 14.2" LED-backlit Liquid Retina XDR 3024x1964 resolution, 254ppi, 1000nits Display
- 512GB Solid State Drive
- 14-Core Integrated GPU
- 16GB Memory
- 802.11ax Wi-Fi + Bluetooth 5.0
- Integrated 1080p FaceTime HD webcam
- Force Touch Trackpad | Touch ID Sensor
- Backlit Magic Keyboard
- Ports:
- 3x Thunderbolt 4 ports
- 1x HDMI 2.0
- 1x SD card reader
- 1x 3.5mm headphone jack
Includes:- 1x Apple 14.2" MacBook Pro with M1 Pro Chip
- 1x Apple USB-C Power Adapter & Charging Cable
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If I had known of this deal I think I would have gone the 10core 1Tb for the extra $117. Seems like a good deal.
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If I had known of this deal I think I would have gone the 10core 1Tb for the extra $117. Seems like a good deal.
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And for that, my wild guess is 32gb ram is the sweet spot between price and running models with useful capabilities. Or perhaps you could get by with Mac 16gb and one of the new M4 Macs with expanded neural processing.
To run 'more capable' LLMs, you basically need to step up to the >36GB RAM territory for Mixtral 8x7b or a 70b parameter model... there's really not much worthwhile between say, Llama3-8b and Mixtral 8x7b.
I heavily regret not getting 32 GB of ram. She slows down a bit.
Other than that, it's a fantastic machine.
Note. This is just for my use case**
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