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ryanschaefer • today at 6:07 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Read it again. Two M5s.

Wait read that again. Two 512GB, unreleased model M5s.

This is gonna cost like 50k to run at home.


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joshstrange • today at 6:14 PM

Closer to ~$30K if I had to guess. A 256 version is $11,299.00 (2TB SSD, 256GB RAM, 36-core CPU, 80‑core GPU), so yeah, 4 of those would be close to $50K but the 96->256 RAM upgrade is $4K, if we assume 512 will be double that it's ~$15K/ea.

But yes, still a massive amount of money and that's before we know the TPS or any other stats.

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sorenjan • today at 6:35 PM

How much does the engineers at Meta make? Spend enough time together with others making $250k+ and eventually you start suggesting that two 512 GB M5s is something you can put on your desktop. I mean, it's one banana, Michael. What could it cost? 10 dollars?

dprkh • today at 6:11 PM

Why would anyone want to run an LLM on Apple's hardware? Why not buy an NVIDIA GPU?

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