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Does that include energy usage (which I would think Apple being in the top 5 of being energy efficient) and just for AI? I’m sure most would be doing more than just hosting and running a single model.
You could include energy usage in the equation, but if you're buying a $10,000 Mac Studio to edit your PDFs and watch YouTube, then that's your own decision. That's also not what we're talking about here.
The Mac is still going to be incredibly energy efficient.
Let's break it down for Qwen 3.5 MoE.
The Mac Studio comes out using ~ 11-12x more energy per token. Making it extremely energy inefficient at this task in comparison.
Not saying it wasn’t implied but didn’t offer it in my original comment but yeah, that’s what I’m talking about. It’s a computer, PC, desktop, workstation…… mostly like someone would be doing other things instead of just AI. You might be talking about just AI on the Mac Studio. To be fair, neither of us clarified our standings, till I ask further questions based on on my original comment. So you’re not wrong, just not what I was getting at. Thanks for sharing though.