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Macs have a larger iGPU and faster RAM than pretty much any comparable PC, which are precisely the two things you want for LLMs.

Also, lots of people only own a Mac.

You'd have to be kinda crazy to buy a Mac explicitly for running/training genai though.



I don't think you want iGPU for LLMs. 4090 + RAM offload would be many times faster.


3090 + RAM offload is not very fast on my desktop. Its fine, but the speed hit is large.

And I was thinking regular laptops as a baseline vs the base M1/M2.


MacBooks don't have enough RAM to train without offloading to SSD which would be even slower.




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