One can only hope that it totally breaks the AI/LLM at industrial scale, so businesses can run their own AI systems with their own data sets.

No more of this fucking datacanter horseshit.

I guess it depends on your definition of perfect - cheap, good or fast.

This thing is probably going to cost at least $20K USD.

Edit:

"Next year's base M7 processor is expected to arrive in the first half of 2027 and will also upgrade memory bandwidth to about 240 GB/s."

That's...really fucking slow. What's the goal here - CGI, engineering sims, game dev etc? 1.5TB is cool but at 240GB/s that will crawl for AI use.

Comparison: this is about $100K, for 7.2TB/s, 252GB VRAM (+500GB system ram, so closer to 750GB total)

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-station/

It shouldn't be, if Apple gets that import exemption from the Chinese memory manufacturer (ChangXin Memory Technologies) they are asking for. Apparently they're already testing the CXMT chips to put in the phones sold in China, freeing up the orders/stock they've sourced already from "safe" sources, to go into their products sold in the rest of the world.

Smart move if they can finagle it.

Hopefully they can get it through before the fuckwits in the administration understand how effectively it can threaten the big AI players that Trump seems to be sniffing around.

You absolutely BET that he will scuttle any trade deal if it interferes with his own personal agenda WRT his investments in AI.

He's that much a greedy cunt.

Big household name gaming companies have devs who burn 20k in tokens A MONTH.

A 50k machine that can run a model locally with 0 monthly costs will pay for itself in 3 months.

With the Apple tax, I'd expect 1.5TB to run you closer to $200k. Enterprise prices are that high today, so if trends continue it's going to be bad

Remember this is “unified”, it’s not like you can upgrade, nor is it available in the “cheap” packaging we’re used to.

You’ll get whatever Apple puts on the SoC, and you’ll be happy with it

Plot twist: by 2028 the RAM upgrade still costs more than the rest of the machine combined.

Won't at least China have production capacities ready by then that make the price drop?

Doesn't big companies try open models. Microsoft was testing deepseek.

Making a RAM drive to load a few minutes of rolling video game footage so it isn’t constantly writing to my SSD or HDD was one of the most “the future is now” things I’ve done lately… and it’s not a new concept, I just never considered it before.

Nope, still running single core. Probably runs worse than on older CPUs which were optimized for single core clock speed.

640k ought to be enough for anyone.