Mac Pro

Um, I don't know.

It's so that, that, that's the only difference is, is if I just get the Mac pro or Mac book or Mac mini, uh, that's the only thing I have.

And so I don't know how they're going to, this surprises

me, Sam, because you're very much a windows guy.

have in St. Louis.

And, um, I, she, I was in there for like probably 20 minutes and I was trying to think of like, so I'm, I'm looking at like the, the max and the eye, all that stuff.

Like I'm like, do I need a dedicated tower? Do I want a Mac book? Do I want this? Do I, you know, and I'm looking around, I go, but I don't know what, if I'm trying to do, uh, this thing like i want to run this game or with this like what is the best Like, is it a Mac Mini? Is it a Mac Pro? Like, I don't want to overspend, but I also don't want to buy the cheap shit, and then I can't run nothing, and I'm kind of, like, hamstrung, right? And the problem is they couldn't really give you a lot of, like, hard...

They weren't, like, one-to-one spec.

But I did get an email from William, not the one seated here.

who has emailed us before, but they wanted to point out that they found their receipt for a Mac Pro.

It was $3,000.

Right.

You could buy one for, I think, $12,000.

It's a very

expensive trash can Mac Pro.

It looks so good, though.

And so, yeah, it's kind of like it's a big Mac mini, but yeah, it's a really, really powerful machine, right? Impressive.

I don't know what is going to happen with the Mac Pro.

Yeah, it's a beautiful machine.

I

was going to say, to me...

I thought the Mac Pro was gone.

Mac Pro is no longer on the menu, right? Yeah, I

mean, I mentioned, you know, we were talking about this earlier today, weren't we, Tim, about, you know, when you look at, like, the Mac Studio, once we found the thing, and we were saying, like, you know, the Mac Studio really is like the Mac Pro now, and...

I think another reason why they can't call it the MacBook Ultra is that it doesn't have the Ultra chip, and I think that could be a little bit confusing.

When you're labeling a chip as the Ultra that comes in like the Mac Studios and what used to come in the Mac Pro, which I'm pretty sure doesn't exist anymore.

I'm pretty sure that's been discontinued, but...

You know, you have the desktop machine that has that ultra chip.

stuff like that.

So they've always been in the trash.

Not MacBook Pro, Mac Pro.

Mac Pro.

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I'd like to see just a slightly better screen.

I'm not saying that it to be a high-end Mac Pro type screen, but it can't hurt to improve the screen a little bit.

I wouldn't mind also having kind of the matte finish like the Dell XPS 13 has because it's not expensive to do that.

I'm not asking for a nanotexture screen, but I could see something like that could be added.

Go for it, Peter.

Well, I was just going to say on an M6 Mac Pro with enough memory, if memory actually comes down in price ever again, and enough GPUs, if those ever come down in price again, then running it locally might be more attractive, right? Allison, you had a real question though.

Yeah, it's a basic one.

I'm revealing a little lack of knowledge on this stuff, but I know there are open source AI models, right? Is it an option to deploy that on, let's say, AWS and that would save you money? Or is it the usage of the model itself that's going to be generating those tokens and those costs? Like is open source going to save us at all?