Just bought a Strix Halo (framework desktop), waffled a long time between that and a Mac Studo but I got tired of waiting for the M5 and don’t really like Apple.
I work with ML professionally, almost all in cloud, I just wanted something “off grid” and unmetered, and needed a computer anyway so decided to pay a bit more and get the one I want. It’s “personal” in that it’s exclusively for me, but I have a business and bought it for that.
Still figuring out the best software, so far it looks like llama.cpp with Vulcan though I have a lot of experimenting to do and don’t currently find it optimal for what I want.
I work with ML professionally, almost all in cloud, I just wanted something “off grid” and unmetered, and needed a computer anyway so decided to pay a bit more and get the one I want. It’s “personal” in that it’s exclusively for me, but I have a business and bought it for that.
Still figuring out the best software, so far it looks like llama.cpp with Vulcan though I have a lot of experimenting to do and don’t currently find it optimal for what I want.