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expiredDr.W posted Yesterday 05:05 PM
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expiredDr.W posted Yesterday 05:05 PM
Apple MacBook Pro (Refurb): 16", M1 Max, 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Space Gray $1135
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Paired with a good local model like qwen3:30b-a3b-thinking-2507, it'll comfortably run 40+ tokens/s all while having Docker containers and loads of other apps running concurrently.
Without benchmarking to compare, most people would be hard-pressed to spot a performance difference between this and, say, a brand new M4 Max that'll run 4x this price.
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With the 64GB of ram, this is a great machine for local LLM & development use. Paired with a good local model like qwen3:30b-a3b-thinking-2507, it'll comfortably run 40+ tokens/s all while having Docker containers and loads of other apps running concurrently.Without benchmarking to compare, most people would be hard-pressed to spot a performance difference between this and, say, a brand new M4 Max that'll run 4x this price.
It's got about half the memory bandwidth, that makes a pretty big difference
With the 64GB of ram, this is a great machine for local LLM & development use. Paired with a good local model like qwen3:30b-a3b-thinking-2507, it'll comfortably run 40+ tokens/s all while having Docker containers and loads of other apps running concurrently.Without benchmarking to compare, most people would be hard-pressed to spot a performance difference between this and, say, a brand new M4 Max that'll run 4x this price.
AI slop about making AI slop?
With the 64GB of ram, this is a great machine for local LLM & development use. Paired with a good local model like qwen3:30b-a3b-thinking-2507, it'll comfortably run 40+ tokens/s all while having Docker containers and loads of other apps running concurrently.Without benchmarking to compare, most people would be hard-pressed to spot a performance difference between this and, say, a brand new M4 Max that'll run 4x this price.
Just out of curiosity do you know of any good comparison videos/ sites? I'm looking for a new laptop, mainly do simple 4k video editing my m1 MAC mini handles fine with 8gb. With that said in looking to create AI images/ video locally
I don't do AI image/video, but it is a lot more GPU intensive, so for that you may wish to consider something like an RTX 5090 on a desktop PC.
for basic editing and daily use only
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