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points by Uncle_Brumpus 1 day ago | 0 comments

I saw "512GB" and knew deep down it means RAM, but SURELY nobody needs the same amount of RAM as I have total SSD space on my desktop, right?

...Right?

[–] ForceBru 1 day ago

This is crazy to me as well: half a terabyte (!) of RAM?! How is that even possible lol (I know this is possible, but seems totally overkill, even though I know LLMs eat RAM for breakfast)

[–] bombcar 1 day ago

The last Intel Mac Pro could take 1.5 TB of RAM iirc.

[–] nostromo 1 day ago

These are very well-suited for running local AI models, which must be held in memory, and are very large.

Nobody is buying these to write Word docs and play MP3s.

[–] Uncle_Brumpus 1 day ago

sorry, I guess I forgot my /s.