[h14h]

Thanks for clarifying -- I was oversimplifying.

But honestly, obsoleting a huge number of otherwise great Apple Silicon machines is something Apple would moment consider a major "pro" of building a compelling local AI stack.

With how much speculation around the difficult time Apple has had getting people to upgrade from M1, I'm sure they'd jump at such an opportunity.

[bijowo1676]

this might be a way for Apple to milk product revenue for many years.

- Please buy our new Macbook pro M5 that gives you 20 tokens/s on local 80B LLM

next year - Please buy our new Macbook pro M6 that gives you 25 tokens/s on local 80B LLM

milking product revenue in perpetuity by offering meaningful marginal improvements, while keeping same architecture will be the golden goose for Apple

+plus if it allows to segment market by wallet size into poor/middle/rich classes, thats even better