hardware, local runners, what fits in memory
What it takes to run a model on hardware you own. Machines and the memory ceiling that decides which model fits, the runners that load it, the quantization that shrinks it, and the setup that makes it usable — with the price of each step, because that is the part comparisons leave out.
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The new Mac Studio goes to 512GB of unified memory at $5,499; the new Mac mini stops at 32GB and starts at $899. For anyone running models on their own machine, that gap is the whole product line, and Apple is now selling it that way.
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