In addition to Jeff's comments in this thread, I am guessing all of his purchased gear is capital expense for an LLC he runs for his youtube channel. That makes it deductible from personal tax.
(again, all guesses, but a common pattern in the US)
My default assumption (with no knowledge about this particular case) is that all gear in YouTube videos is sponsored. Too easy to get jealous of all the fancy setups. But I don't want to become a YouTuber so that settles that.
The Mac Studio in most of my videos is my own workstation, purchased a while back.
The 4 Mac Studio cluster I tested with Exo and Thunderbolt RDMA was a loaner cluster from Apple. There's no universe in which I could justify buying that.
In addition to Jeff's comments in this thread, I am guessing all of his purchased gear is capital expense for an LLC he runs for his youtube channel. That makes it deductible from personal tax. (again, all guesses, but a common pattern in the US)
My default assumption (with no knowledge about this particular case) is that all gear in YouTube videos is sponsored. Too easy to get jealous of all the fancy setups. But I don't want to become a YouTuber so that settles that.
The Mac Studio in most of my videos is my own workstation, purchased a while back.
The 4 Mac Studio cluster I tested with Exo and Thunderbolt RDMA was a loaner cluster from Apple. There's no universe in which I could justify buying that.
I always mention any equipment that's provided / loaned / etc. and the nature of my relationships with vendors—I try to also keep this document updated for transparency's sake: https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube/blob/master/Sponsors....