| ▲ | fg137 3 hours ago | |
> I have a 2022 M2 Mac with 64 GB RAM I closed the article after that. The author has no idea what a privilege it is to have a machine like that for personal use, and how 99% of the population are not going to afford a setup like that. Just some back-of-the-envelope maths will tell you that a $20/month Claude subscription makes much more sense financially. | ||
| ▲ | orf 3 hours ago | parent [-] | |
99% of the population don’t code using models, local or remote. So that’s a useless metric. What % of developers could afford an older MacBook model, second hand? Far, far more than 1%. | ||