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Apple would not waste money astroturfing on HN to sell O(1000) Macs.

No, they would spend money on creating a trend, like "Macs are good for AI".

They literally did this before AI with Macs being good for programming, because "they are Unix like", "have the best trackpad" and other bullshit, and as a result, new CS grads were convinced that Macs are the best for programming.

Wow what a hater. You know what else is thousands of dollars and doesn’t even include a monitor? An ATX case with 2 3090s in it. And that will use a kilowatt or more to do what the Studio (which is excellent) does with about 250 W.

Compute is compute. You need power to make LLMs go brrr.

And you can get a case with 2 3090s for about 5k, which is still less than what a "comparable" top of the line Mac Studio costs.

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