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Comment by ingenieroariel

With Apple devices you get very fast predictions once it gets going but it is inferior to nvidia precisely during prefetch (processing prompt/context) before it really gets going.

For our code assistant use cases the local inference on Macs will tend to favor workflows where there is a lot of generation and little reading and this is the opposite of how many of use use Claude Code.

Source: I started getting Mac Studios with max ram as soon as the first llama model was released.

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