Lee Duna to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 8 months agoApple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB on a PCwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square165fedilinkarrow-up1283arrow-down10
arrow-up1283arrow-down1external-linkApple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB on a PCwww.theregister.comLee Duna to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 8 months agomessage-square165fedilink
minus-square@tallink1•8 months agoThere are some external GPUs that can be USB-attached. Dunno about for the Mac. Latency hit, but probably not as significant for current LLM use than games, as you don’t have a lot of data being pushed over the bus once the model is up.
minus-square@soulfirethewolf@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglish1•8 months agoThose don’t work on Apple silicon Macs. sadly
There are some external GPUs that can be USB-attached. Dunno about for the Mac. Latency hit, but probably not as significant for current LLM use than games, as you don’t have a lot of data being pushed over the bus once the model is up.
Those don’t work on Apple silicon Macs. sadly