M4 Mac mini's efficiency(jeffgeerling.com)

518 points by marinesebastian 1 year ago | 515 comments

Jeff Geerling blog post from November 2024 on the power efficiency of Apple's M4 Mac mini, written amid his Pi 5 GPU and AmpereOne server testing.

AMD Radeon Pro W7700 Running on Raspberry Pi(jeffgeerling.com)

9 points by ingve 1 year ago | 1 comments

Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points(jeffgeerling.com)

139 points by thomasjb 9 months ago | 71 comments

CM0 – A new Raspberry Pi you can't buy(jeffgeerling.com)

189 points by speckx 10 months ago | 48 comments

Big GPUs don't need big PCs(jeffgeerling.com)

256 points by mikece 10 months ago | 116 comments

AmpereOne: Cores Are the New MHz(jeffgeerling.com)

119 points by speckx 1 year ago | 80 comments

macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt(developer.apple.com)

508 points by guiand 10 months ago | 260 comments

Apple developer release notes for macOS 26.2, including a section on RDMA over Thunderbolt for building fast AI compute clusters.

Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage(arstechnica.com)

324 points by rbanffy 7 months ago | 198 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that Apple quietly dropped the 512GB RAM Mac Studio configuration amid an industry-wide memory shortage.

Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines(github.com)

411 points by overbytecode 2 years ago | 128 comments

GitHub repository for Quickemu, a tool that quickly creates and runs optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines using QEMU.

Boring is what we wanted(512pixels.net)

413 points by Amorymeltzer 1 year ago | 239 comments

A 512 Pixels blog post by Stephen Hackett reflecting on five years of Apple Silicon Macs from M1 to M5 and arguing steady, boring iteration is what users wanted.

Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards(ollama.com)

578 points by tosh 2 years ago | 194 comments

Ollama blog post from March 14, 2024 announcing preview support for running models on AMD graphics cards.

SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud(databasearchitects.blogspot.com)

550 points by greghn 2 years ago | 370 comments

Database Architects blog post arguing that local SSD throughput has exploded with PCIe 5.0 while cloud instance storage performance has stagnated.