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by drnick1 5 hours ago
> So this is probably not good news for the MacBook Ultra with 512GB of RAM rumors being..affordable.

Why would anyone need that much RAM in a laptop?
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bitmasher9 5 hours ago
512GB unified memory is targeting local inference of large models, or local training of non-frontier models.
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drnick1 5 hours ago
I doubt you can run a model that requires hundreds of GB of RAM at an acceptable speed (tok/s) on a MacBook.
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aroman 3 hours ago
What would be the bottleneck?
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