[parsimo2010]

The article is pretty good overall, but the title did irk me a little. I assumed when reading "2.5 year old" that it was fairly low-spec only to find out it was an M2 Macbook Pro with 64 GB of unified memory, so it can run models bigger than what an Nvidia 5090 can handle.

I suppose that it could be intended to be read as "my laptop is only 2.5 years old, and therefore fairly modern/powerful" but I doubt that was the intention.

[simonw]

The reason I emphasize the laptop's age is that it is the same laptop I have been using ever since the first LLaMA release.

This makes it a great way to illustrate how much better the models have got without requiring new hardware to unlock those improved abilities.