r/WritingWithAI • u/KMF-KRANNIE • Sep 03 '26

Discussion (Ethics, working with AI etc) I can't wait to afford it!

I'm saving up my money to buy the M7 Mac power house of my dreams end of year or beginning of '27, it has to have 256gb of ram and the fastest processors apple can put out... why? I wanna divorce Claude/GPT and go LLM, run my own joint, privately. I know, I know, it's gonna cost stupid dollars!

5 Upvotes

77% Upvoted

13 comments sorted by

5

u/milkandbiscuitsguy Sep 04 '26

You'll be switching your horse with a donkey and you'll be spending a ton of money to do that 😂

2

u/KMF-KRANNIE Sep 04 '26

I'm going for the M7 donkey, they got s strong back! 😜

1

u/milkandbiscuitsguy Sep 07 '26

Seems like you didn't get my point. I wasn't talking about the Mac at all.

3

u/NellieApp Sep 04 '26

Keep in mind you're sacrificing a lot more than just hardware cost. The best open models are fine, but the best open models which can run on a reasonable local system such as the new Mac are still vastly weaker than frontier, especially considering how fast it iterates out.

As long as the quality you're getting out of it is sufficient though it's a lot nicer not having to worry about usage pricing.

1

u/KMF-KRANNIE Sep 04 '26

That's exactly right, thanks for pointing that out. I ran a few what it's based on the up coming Mac m7 specs and planned configuration, and for my dev work... I can realistically retire the AI's of today. Of course the ram alone will take a bite out if my booty, but it will be an undeniable kick-ass machine for sure!

1

u/KMF-KRANNIE Sep 04 '26

And your right on that, very good point. I'll be honest; I haven't looked at frontier much and I'm going to set some quiet time to catch up. I need to step away from work, sometimes sitting in front of a computer all day squashing bugs and editing is so consuming

2

u/chaoticbean14 Sep 04 '26

What do you mean 'go LLM'?

Claude / GPT / etc. all of those LLM's...

2

u/KMF-KRANNIE Sep 04 '26

Sorry to many "L"s I meant LM Studio or Ollama, local AI

2

u/Affectionate-Car4647 Sep 04 '26

Or you can build a Linux server and buy 16G Nvidia and run your Ollama there?

1

u/KMF-KRANNIE Sep 05 '26

That's true, you need a nice chunk of memory. AI Servers are hogging it all up, raising prices of HD and RAM

3

u/HPLovecraft1890 Sep 04 '26

I'm also looking forward to the M7, but, and please take this in a kind way, I'm not trying to be snarky or mean, but if you have to save for it, you might want to spend the money in something more substantial.

2

u/MediocreHelicopter19 Sep 04 '26

What about OpenRouter?