Dev steipete shows off a 512GB RAM Mac Studio for AI work
steipete · x · 2026-08-19
Well-known developer steipete (Peter Steinberger) showed off a Mac Studio with 512GB of RAM, joking that "Apple was good to us." Machines like this are typically used as local LLM workstations, where massive unified memory is a key advantage for on-device inference.
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