Comment by Greenpants

I specifically chose a Mac Studio 128GB as my home server that's also running LLMs to be always online, in part due to the minimal idle power consumption and mostly fan-less operation. It's definitely expensive, especially nowadays, but I can still recommend Mac Minis as a cheaper alternative for someone to just get started with an affordable, always-on home server that won't annoy any housemates. I think both are in some sweet spot in terms of value for money, depending on what you're looking for in a home server. If image or video generation is your thing, look further though, definitely look into a proper GPU then. Macs are quite slow at that. They're just great at MoE LLMs because it's mostly a matter of (V)RAM size.