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Thanks, that means a lot! Healthy skepticism is part of what makes HN worth posting to. The next post will take a while, but it’s coming.

Even a two-year-old Mac Studio outperforms this kit. A used unit with sufficient memory currently seems to offer the best price-to-performance ratio

"The Apple Silicon Mac Studios outperform the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 machines"

Author here - thanks for actually reading the whole thing, very glad you enjoyed it!

Fair question: I have no affiliation with Ubitium - no stake, no payment, no involvement in the company. The mention at the end comes from genuine interest in the bet against specialization.

Happy to be challenged on the technical parts.