Comment by raw_anon_1111
3 days ago
I don’t think I’ve ever read an article where the reason I knew the author was completely wrong about all of their assumptions was that they admitted it themselves and left the bad assumptions in the article.
The above paragraph is meant to be a compliment.
But justifying it based on keeping his Mac for five years is crazy. At the rate things are moving, coding models are going to get so much better in a year, the gap is going to widen.
Also in the case of his father where he is working for a company that must use a self hosted model or any other company that needed it, would a $10K Mac Studio with 512GB RAM be worth it? What about two Mac Studios connected over Thunderbolt using the newly released support in macOS 26?
He actually addressed your point by pointing out that, in his view, the models this machine can run today are the worst it’ll ever be - he thinks, and my own experience over the last year, is that local models improve and at a pace which is CLOSING the gap to commercial models.
Yes, it’s worth it, if only because that Mac will be worth $20k in 3 months…
Do you think prices will go up for mac?
That comment was a joke, but still. Resale prices for Macs are quite high. I didn’t run the calculation but it is entirely plausible the TCO including resale over a couple of years is much less than $200/month, if that’s the alternative.
baq's comment is a joke about RAM prices.