stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social
stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social

I will remind everybody that Xcode requires 16GB of RAM for its coding assistant features or AI autocomplete 🤡

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imthaz@mastodon.social
imthaz@mastodon.social

@stroughtonsmith Remember when we were celebrating all Mac’s starting at 16 gigs of RAM a few months back?

That was short lived 😀

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pmcg@mastodon.social
pmcg@mastodon.social

@stroughtonsmith yeah the uh … puke-green MacBook invites you to the store but then you realize maybe you need to borrow $300 from a friend to get something better …

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manton
manton

@stroughtonsmith I was thinking about that too. I think 8 GB is a conscious or accidental admission that local LLMs are not happening right now. Users will just use ChatGPT in a browser.

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rom
rom

@manton @stroughtonsmith It is a BUDGET Mac, with an “old” Apple Silicon - don’t expect it to be used for software development, full-on graphics or video editing, and definitely not running LLMs (though PrivateLLM.app might run).

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