John Siracusa
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28,145 appearances
45 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard yesterday
John Siracusa’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that's like $30,000.
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Maybe you're getting more bang for... If that's what you care about, if running... Obviously, they don't run macOS.
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You can't use them as your desktop computer, so I get it.
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But at these prices, once you start saying $18,000 for 256 gigs of RAM...
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And 16 terabyte SSD, which is probably, you know, the main thing is inflating this price.
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It's like that's not that great a deal if you just care about AI stuff.
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And, you know, like to Marco's point earlier, you're probably better off getting some lesser M5 something Mac studios and connecting them together with that RDMA thing than buying the one big honking one.
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But if you want to, Apple will sell it to you for almost $20,000.
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I mean, 96 gigs is basically enough for anybody who's using it as a desktop computer.
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But if you want to use it for AI stuff, that extra RAM really pays.
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And yeah, you jump from 96.
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Next choice in the little configurator is add $4,000 to go up to 256.
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Yeah.
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Which, again, 256 gigs of RAM used to not be that obscene.
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Like the computer I'm sitting next to, in theory, supports 1.5 terabytes of RAM.
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Obviously, a lot slower than the RAM that they're talking about here.
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But still, I hate going backwards.
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I hate having things that the numbers are lower than they used to be, even if, again, it's not the same kind of RAM.
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And the prices are way higher, so that's not great.
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Yeah, I think that Mac Mini ad is really fun and interesting.
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