Mac mini

This is 100% ON PURPOSE. And so is putting the Mac Mini power button on the BOTTOM of the thing. There is someone at Apple that WANTS people to burn. Like the mouse is amazing, scrolling is amazing, gestures are amazing, but you can't even hold it properly because it's so fucking.. idk.. what's the

On one hand, yes. On the other hand, apparently rumours say these will be A chips not M chips, and the M4 Mac Mini starts at 16gb ram where the budget laptops will probably be 8gb, so there seem to be tradeoffs there to make the build cheaper. Pricing at over $599 would be a bad move IMO

Have you ever run a model on a MacBook? I’m running Ollama on an M4 mac mini 64 GB ram and it takes 2 minutes to get a response to a basic question

You can get a Pro chip in Mac mini (small-m) but when you upgrade the RAM like that it comes to almost the same price as Mac Studio — for the M4 generation. For M5... we can only hope and pray. On the oMLX Benchmarks, you can filter on chip so you can easily see for yourself. Note that the only diff

How much would a rig like that cost? Could it fit into a Mac mini setup? my M4 16gb just isn’t good for running local models for agentic workflows

My Mac Mini tip: Remember that you can add a dock and add all the storage you could want, but you cannot add RAM. Second tip: Apple now is only making 16 or 24gb with the regular M4, if you want more than that they will force you up to the M4 pro which increases the price dramatically. You will find

Never enough. Macs are good for LLMs but you’re going to get a lot better performance with other hardware (I.e. nvidia card) I use a m4 Mac mini with 24gb ram and it is pulling teeth to do images and video is basically impossible. Sucks Until there’s some sort of dedicated headway made Mac based ima

Mac studio - m4 max chip, 40 core GPU - 1tb ssd and 64gb ram - $2900 Nvidia rtx 5090 32gb VRAM - ~$4200 Agreed, PC is more expandable, can even thrown in additional 24tb HDD, but expansion is not possible in Mac, have to rely on NAS. (Mac mini somehow offers only 48gb RAM when last checked)

all depends on several factors, context length, system ram not just vram. i was running a mac mini m4 pro 24g which is unified memory and good memory bandwidth. i could load thegemma4-26b-a4b model but with context an system overheads it was painfully slow. (i was using openclaw which adds significa

the 32gb isn't readily available anymore. If you go for the M4 regular, you get 16 or 24, and after that next stop is 48, but the 48 is the M4 pro or whatever, and is more than double the price. High memory base Mac Minis are, well, memories now.