Screenless M1 Airs at $30 per 1,000 multicore points spark cheap Mac cluster idea
vincent_koc · x · 2026-10-28
A cost breakdown shows screenless used M1 MacBook Airs are the most cost-efficient Apple silicon to run workloads on: roughly $30 per 1,000 GeekBench 6 multicore points, 8k points per unit, with server-style Macs estimated at $100–200. vincentkoc says he'll rack a batch of M1 Airs on a weekend to build a cheap Mac silicon cluster—a practical idea for budget local inference.
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