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3 most important things for Apple are:

- HW design

- UI

- UX

That Macs come with awesome VRAM is only because #3. Apple has no explicit incentive to make LLM-ready machines.

I disagree. ML is eating the world by storm and one thing Apple loves is high margins. Folks like myself would gladly pay that margin to someone besides Nvidia. I paid $2k for my last GPU and was happy to do it. That doesn’t even factor the fact that businesses would pay even more when the alternative are machines that start in the tens of thousands for just the GPU ability. GPUs right now are carrying fat margins and that makes more than enough incentive for Apple IMHO.

But you wouldn't be able to upgrade an Apple Mac when the next generation of LLMs is out.

You do get some money back for a trade-in depending on how old the machine is.

You can find many leaked email threads from Apple where they talk about the value of high powered local compute. It is a fundamental part of their strategy. They do not want the cloud approach for high end compute like Google, they want you to have high end and powerful devices in your hands.

Got a link to those emails?

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