Apple M1 Mac

“99.99% of what people use AI for today already processes fine on an M1”

“my M1 just slept overnight while not plugged in, and I had 99% charge just now”

“the M1 and later hardware is still years later some of the best arm64 hardware youre going to find”

“My M1 is still going strong and I haven't felt any pressure to upgrade.”

“my M1 plays Tomb Raider games really well, it's cool to the touch and doesn't stutter in most situations”

“is really starting to show its age trying to run anything bigger than 7B”

“where Ampere and Graviton was different from the M1 mac in benchmark”

“My M1 Mac gets almost 2 days of low-intensity use after ~6 years of use”

“All macs since m1 have very nice gpus that can handle most games made today”

“I'd never go x86 again after owning an m1.”

“M1 is finishing it's 6th year of life and going strong”

“repurposing a cheap M1 in a few years? Absolutely.”

“It even runs on an M1 mac with good speeds.”

“across all benchmarks, Linux running in a VM on the M1 had higher perf (4 cores) than any instance type I launched”

“Enthusiasts have made M1 work better.”

“Take an M1 and it's a joy to use with Linux.”

“how M1 Mac bootloader is locked down”

“M1 is even better in some ways, like it has Thunderbolt ports (plural even!).”

“I'd choose a 5-year old 16 GB memory M1 over a Neo every single time.”

“Even M1 is still great for many use cases.”

“The M1 was available in volume when they said it was going to be.”

“It handles everything I throw at it.”

“Most M1 systems I saw use on-board BGA110 NAND flash, and thus maintenance/upgrades on the SSD are difficult.”

“Even an M1 8GB would far outperform what you have now.”

“Do you think SSD drives are replaceable for no reason?”

“You can probably get one for less than 500 USD.”

“Once you're compiling a bunch of stuff the battery performance tanks and seems just like any other notebook computer.”

“pretty good in almost every sense except for repairability”

“the m1 still a perfectly capable machine”

“That's nothing stellar, but you can run 70b models at decent quants with moderate context windows.”

“snack up some of that awesome hardware for cheap”

“I haven’t noticed anything struggling, even with tons of expensive apps running.”

“Apple isn't interested in helping Linux and everything has to be painfully reverse engineered”

“the M1 is still good enough to last years longer under the sane demands of nearly any type of work”

“Get an M1/M2 off of ebay or craigslist.”

“Locked, proprietary bootloader with no guaranteed Linux support”

“you can get a used M1/M2 which will run Linux really well”

“Apple gets the credit for designing a bootloader that allows you to run a third party unsigned OS”

“the M1 purchase was a step up compared to Intel; the rest is diminishing returns for now”

“Both of my m1 series Macs will be more than adequate for my web dev needs for the next few years”