Because buying Macs is not about performance, its about feeling like you are rich.
That money could have been spent on way more bang/buck performance in the form of a set of 4 graphics cards.
Also I would probably put the odds 70:30 that Apple marketing is astroturfing on HN from the amount of posts about running llms on Macbooks, because in reality, the inference speed of any decent llm is unusable on a Macbook despite the ability to fit it into RAM.
That money could have been spent on way more bang/buck performance in the form of a set of 4 graphics cards.
Also I would probably put the odds 70:30 that Apple marketing is astroturfing on HN from the amount of posts about running llms on Macbooks, because in reality, the inference speed of any decent llm is unusable on a Macbook despite the ability to fit it into RAM.