Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
THE SO WHAT
The practical split is emerging: laptops like MacBooks are for small/medium models and prototyping, dedicated GPUs are for throughput and scale. If your roadmap includes multi-billion parameter models or concurrent workloads, treat local GPU as infra, not a personal device feature.
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