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- The Mac mini's Real Floor Is 1999 Euros
What I keep circling back to on the M6 Mac mini isn't the 2 nm process or the 40 percent multi-thread bump. It's that only the M5 Pro gets…
- Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard: the tags matter more than the driver
The part I care about isn't the driver layer, it's the tagging system. Metadata describing physical properties and limits that don't show…
- 512GB of Unified Memory Is the Whole Story
The number I keep staring at is 512GB of unified memory at 1.2TB/s. That's the line where running frontier-class open-weight models locally…
- M6 and M5 Ultra: buy for the memory, not the cores
Every M-series launch I do the same math and land the same place. M6 gets a Dual 16-core Neural Engine, 170GB/s of bandwidth, Neural…