Comment by HSO

running potentially sota open-weight models locally only became a thing in fall 2023.

if a hardware cycle takes ~3 years then fall 2026 would be the first possible device generation where apple exploits its advantage with the unified ram architecture.

more realistically, spring 2027, since they probably also needed some time to make up their minds to lean into that on the top end.

that`s also how i would interpret the recent rumors on m6 and m7.

naturally, the cooling and all that will be optimized around that.

so the first devices that are actually intended and designed for this use case will come at the earliest this fall and more likely in q1/q2 next year.

you are basically paying the price now to be on the bleeding (sweating) edge