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storystarlingyesterday at 11:41 PM1 replyview on HN

It is worth noting the distinction between display acceleration and compute support here. While the desktop rendering is impressive, for local AI or LLM inference the Linux stack on M-series is still significantly behind Metal/MPS on macOS. I tried to switch my local dev environment over recently but without a mature compute stack it is hard to justify leaving macOS if you need to run models locally.


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black_puppydogtoday at 9:39 AM

of course, that's only relevant if you do intend to run models locally. which, up to very recently, would have been roughly 0% of mac users.