[VVilhelmsen]

Who is this made for? Who needs a personal computer this powerful? Not trying to be funny - it's a genuine question.

Gamers don't generally use a mac because of the lack of games and I'm guessing those who are really into LLMs use Linux for the flexibility. Video editing can be done on much cheaper hardware.

Very rich LLM enthusiasts who wants to try out mac?

[eric-burel]

I don't think people into LLMs necessarily use Linux, most devs I see around use a mac, and I think I'll buy one and move out of Ubuntu if I start using them more seriously. The perfs are the key selling point as many professional use cases benefits from running LLMs locally.

[VVilhelmsen]

I used to run Ubuntu with i3 and recently switched to a macbook air. I thought I would hate it coming from i3, but honestly when using the stage manager + tmux & nvim and betterTouchTool for keybinds it feels just as effective. The fact that fullscreen applications get their own desktop is nice too.

[rperez333]

Content creation usually, which consists of audio, photo, and video editing mostly. The hardware and software integration makes video editing on a Mac really superior, specially with their ProRes codec.

You can get a good experience on a Windows or Linux machine with DaVinci Resolve, but that’s mostly because of the way better GPUs like the 4090/RTX series you’ve got at your disposal.

[kalleboo]

Modern video editing includes tasks such as AI upscaling and subtitle generation that can use lots of power

[perfmode]

I would love 32 cores for audio editing in RX 11.

[tomovo]

Swift developers.