the use case is getting the best bang for your back per dollar
take an 8 year life cycle for all machines and think of the cheapest expensive machine that you can buy which ll give you a decent llm to run
take an 8 year life cycle for all machines and think of the cheapest expensive machine that you can buy which ll give you a decent llm to run
To do significantly better than that with a Studio, say M5 Max with 128GB would cost twice as much again. It would probably be more than twice as performant and much more capable, but you'd be getting into very big bucks that IMHO would only be justifiable for paying pro work.