f the child mentioned didn't give you consent to share details about them, don't.
I thought it was generally accepted that children under the age of 18yrs could not give legal "consent" to anything....?
Until the age of 18, for the most part legally, can't parents speak for and act for their children....?
What are the use cases for local AI models that actually require running on macOS? Surely a commodity x86 system is more appropriate?
Is there even the software support for LLMs on macOS?
Actually yes there is...
I'm still learning about this myself, but, from what I understand the M series of chips that Apple has come out with, with it having a CPU, GPU, and shared unified memory....it makes them uniquely capable of running local models on them...decently large models depending on how much you fork over for RAM. These M chips also have a special end unit for "intelligence processing" I think they call it.
The M5 chips just coming out look to be very good at this and it is speculated the M5 Ultra will be a high performance work horse.
Apple may have missed the mark for running AI, but the appear to have hit a home run on the hardware aspect of it.
I've seen demos on YouTube of someone hooking up like 4-5 Mac Studios that were maxed out M3 ultras I think and they were running extremely LARGE LLMs locally and getting cloud level numbers on them.
Of course these were like $10K each boxes.....but the level of model they were running would have cost my MANY more times trying to match them with NVIDIA GPU cards.....
i believe there are OSX friendly tools like ollama that make downloading, and running LLMs quite easy....and of course there's the latest sensation...OpenClaw, that folks are buying up Mac Minis for....to have multiple agents running using models of your. Choice (commercial clound or local) of models and giving them persistent memory, and ability to do a lot of things for you...depending on how comfortable you are with giving said agents long leashes and capabilities....
Do look a bit on YouTube on these topics....it's actually quite interesting.
These M chips are already giving the home user the capability to use models almost as large and on the cutting edge as the big companies.....more than enough for most users.
Right now, there's nothing x86 that can really match them...at least not for the money.
Especially with the upcoming M5 Max (and Ultra?) Mac Studio the Mac Pro with its eight (pretty much useless) PCIe slots is the odd one out. It doesn't make sense with the tightly integrated Apple Silicon chips, and unless they were going to make a whole separate line of more modular M-series chips for the high end it really doesn't have a place in the lineup that makes sense. I guess they could have considered putting M5 Max chips on daughterboards and made a motherboard with multiple slots for them, but it would have been even more ridiculously expensive to do that.
Look for a gaming monitor with no WiFi option
Do they make these in 65" or larger?
If not, that's not really useful....no one wants to have everyone in the family and/or guests huddled around a 25" monitor in the corner of the living room you know....
t depends on if they send you a tax notice or not. There was an outfit in Ohio that I used to purchase a lot of electronics from. One year I got a note from them listing my purchases, and that I would have to pay taxes on. That was a pain in the ass.
I think they got "caught", or had new accountants or something. But yes - if you can avoid the sales tax, it's a significant discount.
Interesting, I've never received any such notices....but most of my stuff is one off buys...not repeated purchases from a single site...
I find a lot of sellers out there that still do not charge sales tax and some times...that makes it cheaper than Amazon...
We should buy a TON of these things....and set them all up aimed at China.
And if China gets out of line....we find out what their "return policy" is....
That's what you do when you want change.
What if I don't want "change"....?
I mean I do vote for people who want what I want....but the govt isn't there to think for me...they are there to obey the will of their constituents
They seem to forget this...
Yes you prefer to use touch screens I guess to distract you and kill people rather than using a simple voice instruction?
No...I prefer physical buttons, dials, switches...that I can operate 99% of the time via muscle memory without having to take my eyes off the road....
Like the OP, I can't stand talking to a fucking machine.
It means when you do a Google search for a restaurant
People do that...?
I mean, by the time I get in my car, I already know what restaurant I'm going to....my research is done LONG before I think of how I'll get there either via my car or an uber, etc....
Ok...sounds weird....
I can't stand talking to machines...especially the auto answer phones businesses have....I just start repeatedly hitting 0 and saying "Agent"....etc.
Yep and the same idiots in the USA drive SUVs and trucks just to get groceries.
Geez, why get your panties in a wad because of what Americans choose to spend their dollars on?
It's really none of your fucking business.....free people are free to buy what they want to own and drive.....nothing wrong with that.
In the EU the SIM in mandatory because of the automatic emergency calling system. If your car ends up upsidedown with you knocked out, you'll be thankful to wake up in a hospital because of it.
Err...my watch and phone both have that capability to auto detect accident and call emergency services.
I don't need nor want connectivity in my car built in...for monitoring, telemetry, spying or a KILL switch.....
I guess I'm just old fashioned, but I have buttons for those features. Physical buttons. My phone connects to the car via bluetooth just fine. I would be perfectly happy with ZERO infortaiment system and zero connection of the car to the Internet.
Thank you...same here.
With physical controls I can easily do most things with muscle memory without having to take my eyes off the road, or if I do...it is absolutely minimal time off road.
I hook my phone up only to stream music....occasionally if I'm going somewhere unfamiliar I'll use map....and that's it.
I do not need, nor do I want internet or any other connectivity built into my car.....especially not for updates or telemetry or the dreaded KILL switch that someone external to me holds.
I enjoy my analog gauges....physical ones or even some that are digital....I don't need a ton of information....I like my tachometer, speed, oil pressure and water temp.....aside from that, I don't need much else staring me in the face (ok fuel levels too).
And ugh...I cannot stand the whole huge sheets of glass like in Teslas......
And yes....no major built in infotainment system....that becomes quickly outdated within a year or two...just let me run my music through my phone which I do tend to update a bit more often than my car.
When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder. -- James H. Boren
