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Apple Silicon

Mac Studio M4 Max (36GB)

$2,499

Chip

Apple M4 Max

Unified memory

36 GB

Llama 3.1 8B tok/s

41

Max model size

~29 GB

Notes

Desktop-class thermals for sustained inference
Strong for 14B–20B Q4 with MLX
No multi-GPU scaling — single chip ceiling

Compare configs

Mac Mini M4 (16GB) — $799
MacBook Pro 14" M4 Pro (48GB) — $2,499
Mac Studio M3 Ultra (96GB) — $5,299

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