Boy, oh boy Apple is the new shovel seller during AI gold rush.

Most people at Apple have already realized that their processors are already too powerful for regular users - heck, as a developer my M2 Pro with 32 GB RAM is more than enough for me.

Regular users don’t care about local AI either. So, they will probably extract as much money as possible during AI gold rush, but then we will most likely see Apple

a. Making their software worse (god forbid, forced updates)

b. Making their hardware impossible to repair (as they almost accomplished this already) and easier to break.

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dannyw 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I dunno, Apple's been throwing many bones to their customers who use their Macs for AI stuff; like Apple working with, and signing TinyGPU's NVIDIA eGPU drivers.

Plus introducing features like RDMA over thunderbolt, which is critical for distributed inference/training/etc. On the software side, Apple is investing heaps.

It's still ridiculous they don't support expandable NVMes, but the memory being soldered makes sense, you need it for 1.2TB/s bandwidth.

They are still selling high-margin hardware. Apple loves selling high-margin hardware.

	▲	gauntr 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Wow, didn't know this exists. So instead of ditching my M1 Pro Macbook for a newer one with more RAM and power I could do this instead (if reasonable regarding pricing). EDIT: AMD too, it's not limited to Nvidia, nice.

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amelius 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Boy, oh boy Apple is the new shovel seller during AI gold rush.

They're eating nvidia's lunch.