Apple silicon is so overpowered only local LLM runners and 8K editors notice
vivekhaldar · x · 2026-10-31
vivekhaldar observes that Apple's lineup is so overpowered even at baseline that only two user groups can tell the difference: people running local LLMs, and 8K video editors—a sign that on-device AI inference is becoming the main driver of consumer hardware demand.
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