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electronics
MacBook Pro 16-inch M5 Max (128GB / 2TB)
$6,999.00declared value
Section A — Reason for purchase (required)
I run local models every day, and my current 32GB machine swaps to disk the moment a 30B model loads, so experiments end in memory errors instead of answers. The 128GB M5 Max is the only laptop that holds a 70B model in unified memory at 614GB/s, which means I can iterate on private code without uploading it to anyone. I am not buying it to browse faster. I am buying it so my work stops being rate-limited by someone else's API.
Section B — Cheaper alternative (required)
Rent a GPU by the hour (RunPod, Vast.ai, Lambda) and SSH into it. Roughly $0.50-2.00 per GPU-hour for an A100 or H100, no upfront cost, and I can stop paying the week the project ends.
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