Comment by srcreigh

It’s not so clear after 5 years that you’ll come out ahead. You’ll have spent $20k. The apple computer owner will probably be running local models that are better than today’s frontier on the same hardware.

Idk where you live, but where I am running the M5 Ultra Mac Studio at max rated power 24/7 for a month costs C$42.

The considerations against Apple hardware are 1) hardware advancements 2) early access to the best models. But it’s really not that clear.

(The other guy who thought hosted models on openrouter are cheap has spent $100k in 5 years.)