[siraben]

While running locally on an M1 Pro is nice, recently I've switched over to a Runpod[0] instance running Stable Diffusion instead. The main reasons being high workloads placed on the laptop degrade the battery faster and it takes ~40s to render a single image. On an A5000 it takes mere seconds to do 40 steps. The cost is around $0.2/hr.

[0] https://runpod.io

[Joe_Boogz]

can't the battery problem be mitigated if you plug in your Macbook while running Stable Diffusion?

[siraben]

The laptop body still heats up and over long periods of time this can degrade the battery, I’ve measured a sharp drop in capacity from the device itself.