If your compute needs actually call for clustering to increase performance then you should have already exceeded the performance of any maxed out, single node. Budgets far above us normies. The real problem though is apple has had hardware enterprise wanted to use before and not supported that use at all. They target consumers not fleets/data centers. They long ago discontinued their xserves.
@@ianTnai The node topic is just an answer to the rip off mentality in apple pricing policy factoring 6 to 8 times the appropriate pricing for storage and RAM and that an maxed out Mac Mini M4 (doubling Storage and doubling RAM) is more costly than 2 Base Mac Mini M4 (where you get the second PCB, the second PSU, the second case, the second Software license, the second power Cord, the second packaging, the ability to set up a second workspace. So if you factor in all these items according to apples pricing scheme PCB 50$, Case 100$, Software License 100$, Power Cord 30$, Packaging 10$ it adds up to probably 300$ so the maximum acceptable uzpgrade price for 16GB RAM to 32 GB RAM plus Storage from 256 GB to 512 GB would be roughly 300$ in Total, and i bet Upgrade prices of 100$ for each increment (which would be still massively overpriced by factor 4) would be a great success as shelf products (manufactured with a much higher productivity than Customer builds).
Classic Apple pricing. Baseline but ok performance for $ - but to get what apple boasts performance, well then, you're looking at $$$$$ !! They must use extortion as their core business model.
Imagine Stacking 4 * M4 Ultra Mac Studio 256GB Unified memory (1TB) ... OR 4 * M4 Max Mac Studio 128GB Unified memory (512GB) that's some SERIOUS AI workload and a huge LLM and memory bandwidth 🤣
Deploying your own AI is never become easier since the arriving of Ollama and Hanging Face.
What they dont realize is theyre putting hot air on top of their minis with this stacked setup
They're aware bro... It's just for a pic
@ 0:43 Base Model has TB 4 not TB 5. The quoted example uses not the 600$ Base versiuon but the 1400$ Pro version therefore able to use TB5.
You are right, but even TB4 should be enough for daisy chain.
What I came to say
Thanks!
If your compute needs actually call for clustering to increase performance then you should have already exceeded the performance of any maxed out, single node. Budgets far above us normies.
The real problem though is apple has had hardware enterprise wanted to use before and not supported that use at all. They target consumers not fleets/data centers. They long ago discontinued their xserves.
@@ianTnai The node topic is just an answer to the rip off mentality in apple pricing policy factoring 6 to 8 times the appropriate pricing for storage and RAM and that an maxed out Mac Mini M4 (doubling Storage and doubling RAM) is more costly than 2 Base Mac Mini M4 (where you get the second PCB, the second PSU, the second case, the second Software license, the second power Cord, the second packaging, the ability to set up a second workspace.
So if you factor in all these items according to apples pricing scheme PCB 50$, Case 100$, Software License 100$, Power Cord 30$, Packaging 10$ it adds up to probably 300$ so the maximum acceptable uzpgrade price for 16GB RAM to 32 GB RAM plus Storage from 256 GB to 512 GB would be roughly 300$ in Total, and i bet Upgrade prices of 100$ for each increment (which would be still massively overpriced by factor 4) would be a great success as shelf products (manufactured with a much higher productivity than Customer builds).
This is EXACTLY what I have been searching for the last 10 days!
I wanna know what the poster with the price tag says in full!
Apple should compete with Nvidia making racks of AI hardware.
Waiting for the studio M4 and then well stack
Did you have to use their os/software? Did you have to create an Apple account?
Asahi linux does not yet support M4, but it's on their roadmap. For now you would have to use macOS.
Classic Apple pricing. Baseline but ok performance for $ - but to get what apple boasts performance, well then, you're looking at $$$$$ !! They must use extortion as their core business model.
Is there still a shortage of Raspberry PI’s? Otherwise, why are people using these? This seems crazy!
apple had ai in mind for decades when making their chips but not so much for ai when it comes to stuff like apple intelligence
How many Rs in Strawberry?
Enough Rs to make an AI question its life choices
Wow, stack them to make a Ai hub! Who cares? What is an AI hub? Do people really do this? 😂😂😂
Imagine Stacking
4 * M4 Ultra Mac Studio 256GB Unified memory (1TB) ...
OR
4 * M4 Max Mac Studio 128GB Unified memory (512GB)
that's some SERIOUS AI workload and a huge LLM and memory bandwidth
🤣
I saw a stack of five and it didn't really give you anymore power then a couple of Mac book pro max units