I rented a mac once for testing and ran OSX in a VM and its fucking hungry lol. eating RAM like Windows pretty much, even the programs are pretty wasteful.
You could run llama 70B with llama.cpp and acceptable quant like q6_k or maybe even q8_0. Seems like a nice usecase. Unified memory is not a meme, it's much quicker than RAM on other devices, so you can get like 10-30 t/s instead of 1-2 t/s. It's probably useless for training tho, and if you don't care about local llm's, you won't have much use for that memory.
If you're doing AI modeling or neural networking having essentially 128GB of VRAM is super useful. Shame their neural engine is so pathetic though a Jetson nano has a more powerful neural engine.
You could run llama 70B with llama.cpp and acceptable quant like q6_k or maybe even q8_0. Seems like a nice usecase. Unified memory is not a meme, it's much quicker than RAM on other devices, so you can get like 10-30 t/s instead of 1-2 t/s. It's probably useless for training tho, and if you don't care about local llm's, you won't have much use for that memory.
no. but 99% of laptops you can get up to like 1000$ only have soldered RAM. its fucking awful. DDR3/DDR4 laptops either had dual or a single open RAM slot. current DDR5 ones are all solder. Lenovo, ASUS, MSI, all same. fucking shit.
yeah I know if you buy a ThinkPad, a Precision or whatever, those have open slots but we are not talking about 3000$ laptops.
May be not even enough if you want to load and run LLMs locally, so for some corner cases is not overkill.
For me, ram is one of those thing is never enough when you use your pc/laptop as a workstation.
idk, what do you do on it?
apple sucks
Short of a ram drive or some other special use case, yes.
It depends what you use your laptop for.
There are a number of applications that can use all that RAM to avoid more swapping to the drive.
how come only Apple still does glossy displays on laptops? They look so much better as long as you avoid reflections
A lot of companies do glossy displays on laptops.
It is the default for all that have touch screens.
In office, conferneces, etc. you don't have much of a choice where you will sit. Glossy surface without touchscreen is useless
probably yes
64gb is the most you need for everything right now but maybe in 5 years if you still use the laptop it will be useful
128GB on mac is same as 256GB on pc
I rented a mac once for testing and ran OSX in a VM and its fucking hungry lol. eating RAM like Windows pretty much, even the programs are pretty wasteful.
you can just use a VM/dedi for that tho
Do you know what PC is short for?
If you're doing AI modeling or neural networking having essentially 128GB of VRAM is super useful. Shame their neural engine is so pathetic though a Jetson nano has a more powerful neural engine.
Just think of it being 20 years ahead of the curve
You could run llama 70B with llama.cpp and acceptable quant like q6_k or maybe even q8_0. Seems like a nice usecase. Unified memory is not a meme, it's much quicker than RAM on other devices, so you can get like 10-30 t/s instead of 1-2 t/s. It's probably useless for training tho, and if you don't care about local llm's, you won't have much use for that memory.
no. but 99% of laptops you can get up to like 1000$ only have soldered RAM. its fucking awful. DDR3/DDR4 laptops either had dual or a single open RAM slot. current DDR5 ones are all solder. Lenovo, ASUS, MSI, all same. fucking shit.
yeah I know if you buy a ThinkPad, a Precision or whatever, those have open slots but we are not talking about 3000$ laptops.
I have ddr5 with one extra slot. T14 gen 4. Just upgraded to 32gb.
Maybe not if you're controlling elaborate media presentations or stage shows or something.
May be not even enough if you want to load and run LLMs locally, so for some corner cases is not overkill.
For me, ram is one of those thing is never enough when you use your pc/laptop as a workstation.
>no numpad
don't care, it's trash
i have a numpad and never use it. learn how to type
idr the last time I used or needed a numpad
If the memory is soldered on it's the minimum. Unless you're talking about ~$200 disposable shit.