Apple’s new Mac minis are primed for local AI. I specced one for $2,899
THE SO WHAT
A $2,899 Mac mini that’s become a 'local AI hero' shows how much inference you can now park under a desk instead of in the cloud. Teams with privacy-sensitive or latency-critical workloads should be piloting these as edge nodes and benchmarking against hosted GPUs on real tasks, not just FLOP charts.
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