Beautiful. Useless.

HARDWAREAESTHETIC: 10/10COMPATIBILITY: 2/10
MAC_CRUSHED_BY_NVIDIA

Key Takeaways

  • The Big Shift: How Agentic AI is changing the game.
  • Actionable Insight: Immediate steps to secure your AI Privacy.
  • Future Proof: Why Local LLMs are the ultimate privacy shield.

The "192GB RAM" Trap

Apple sells you a dream: "192GB of Unified Memory! Run huge models on your desk!"

It sounds amazing. I bought one.

Then I tried to run code.

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The CUDA Monopoly

Here is the hard truth: AI is Nvidia's world. We just live in it.

99% of AI repositories on GitHub are optimized for CUDA. Apple's "Metal" (MPS) is an afterthought. It is buggy. It is slow. It is unsupported.

[GAME] :: TECH_DEATHMATCH_SIMULATOR

Mac Studio (M2 Ultra)

2
VS

Nvidia Rig (4090)

2
192 GB (Huge)
Memory
24 GB (Tiny)
Beta / Broken
Software Support
Native / Instant
Slow
Training Speed
Blazing
High
Resale Value
Moderate
VERDICT: DRAW
SYS_READYID: MFDGHZ

Inference vs Training

If you just want to run LLMs (Ollama), the Mac is actually okay. It's quiet. It's efficient.

[EXPLOIT] :: WARNING: PYTORCH SUPPORT

MPS Backend

BETA

Flash Attention

MISSING

xFormers

UNSUPPORTED

SYS_READYID: VL17FX

But if you want to train? If you want to finetune? If you want to use the bleeding edge tools released 5 minutes ago?

You will spend 90% of your time debugging dependencies and 10% coding.

[GAME] :: VIBE_CHECK
Q: 1/1SCORE: 0
Is this verified?
SYS_READYID: 9JK4U5
[SIMULATION] :: THE_SUBSCRIPTION_BLEED

YOUR_MONTHLY_RENT

Netflix$22
Spotify$12
Adobe Creative Cloud$60
Dropbox$15
ChatGPT Plus$20
Midjourney$30
TOTAL$159/mo

*Click items to cancel them.

COST OVER 5 YEARS

$9,540

IF INVESTED (S&P 500)

$13,356
LOCAL_ALTERNATIVE_COSTNAS ($400) + Plex ($0) + Obsidian ($0) + Stable Diffusion ($0)
$400 one-time
SYS_READYID: U6VRTH
[SIMULATION] :: HUMAN_VS_MODEL_LATENCY_TEST
MODEL_V5 (AUTO-REGRESSIVE)0%
YOU (BIOLOGICAL NEURAL NET)NaN%

TYPE THIS PROMPT:

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Conclusion

The Mac Studio is the best computer I have ever owned for video editing. For AI? It is a $5,000 aluminum paperweight.

Buy a cloud GPU. Or build a PC. Don't fight the CUDA current.

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