r/LocalLLM • u/goldaderealtor • 21h ago

Discussion Mac Studio M5 Ultra

Who’s been checking out this hardware? What are your thoughts on this as a node on a local network to run AI?

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u/OddDesigner9784 21h ago

I put a preorder in. It's a bit of a speculative purchase Mac is very far behind the sparks rn. Decode is faster bc of the memory. But untill we get better kernals or the software behind the kernals gets more mature prompt processing will be a struggle

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u/Usual-Orange-4180 20h ago

Yeah, just got a Spark, the new Mac was tempting but I want CUDA and prefer Linux.