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by realusername 2 hours ago
> After a lot of researched I was quite surprised that the mac was the cheapest option

For Immich, the cheapest option will either be a NAS or a used laptop depending on the amount of data you need, I wouldn't buy a mac for that.
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Mashimo 1 hour ago
Maybe he wants really fast or large AI models inside immich?

(I just run the defaults on my CPU, works for me)

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realusername 1 hour ago
I'm not sure why you would need large AI models for Immich, the face detection is pretty cheap and will run on 10 year old hardware without a blip.

I think the decision comes primarily on how much data you would like to store for Immich, if you want to go cheaply, a 100 bucks used laptop will do the job, if you have too much data, a NAS will be more suitable (and you are certainly not going to get a mac where you can plug multiple internal hard drives for the price of a NAS)

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Mashimo 48 minutes ago
Not for faces, but the CLIP model for the context search https://docs.immich.app/features/searching/

That needs to be in (v)ram for searches.

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