MacBook Pro

The fact that they still natively support Linux and Windows, as well as eGPU (or internal for the Mac Pro) while being Macs still is what props them up still. Even older MacBook pros still command a decent margin because of their greater memory and storage configs over comparable used Apple Silicon

It’s amazing how far Apple has moved me down the chip line. I started using Macs on a Power Mac G5 dual 1.8Ghz in 2004. At the time? That was just sort of expected if you were serious about photo or video. That G5 became a Core2Duo 24” iMac around 2008, which led to a 27” i7 iMac around 2013 which b

I feel the release of the new PC laptop prices for this year are the best advertisement for Apple. Considering that right now, for that same price, I can get a 16” MacBook Pro M5 Pro chip with 64 GB RAM and 2TB SSD. If I go 14” instead, I can fit even more for the price.

Bruh I have M3 Max 96gb and my workflow is way, way more demanding than yours. 4 hours 4k 4 camera Multicam with 3-15 effects layers and color grading no rendering in FCP, while driving Studio Display XDR, 150 tabs in Safari, with DaVinci Resolve and Apple Motion open, while transcoding in Compresso

Under normal usage, there should be no need to do any of that. I've been using Macs almost as long as they have been around. In the early days, 20 to 40 years ago, there were all kinds of maintenance tasks that could be done like rebuilding the desktop database, repairing permissions, defragmenting

I don’t want to confuse you further. But I’m on a MacBook Pro M4 Max with 64Gb of RAM. I use oMLX as my backend to run models. I run qwen3.6:35b-oq6 as my daily driver and it’s great. I get 60 tokens/second inference at 80 percent RAM usage. Docker is not even in the equation. I don’t use GGUFs, I f

Yes MacBook Pro, but the critical choices are which Apple Silicon chip (M1, M2…M5) and how much unified RAM. Next one is storage capacity - as you’ll be downloading/creating lots of model weights, training data, training results etc. Invest in the most powerful M4/M5 that you can afford.

Get a MacBook Air with more RAM. The MacBook Neo is compelling, but really designed for simple, daily computing tasks. Browsing, email, writing, etc. I f you’re doing graphics work, you’ll want/need more RAM than 8GB. I’d want 32GB minimum. The last thing you’d want would be to need to constantly fi

A bit late to the party, but I will "echo" some of the sentiments already in the thread.I am currently a postdoc in comp chem, and I started "messing with these things (e.g. linux distros)" since I was in HS, as many of our fellow nerds. The TL;DR answer would be that nowadays most laptops are decen

That's super useful, thank you! So first, you probably want to go for a laptop then, if you're essentially looking for a desktop replacement but want portability. Phocus for Mac 4.1.2 added a whole lot of new tethering features, which was useful. But they also broke color rendering, so you should pr