unified memory

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AI

the $1,999 Mac mini runs a 30B model in near silence on 40 watts. here's the catch nobody puts in the headline

A palm-sized box that sips power and runs mid-size local models is a genuinely great story — until you ask it to process a long prompt. What the M4 Pro Mac mini is brilliant at, and the one thing it's quietly bad at.

Lena Fischer · 2h ago · 9 min

Hardware

Nvidia's DGX Spark costs 2.4x a Strix Halo mini-PC. it barely beats it on the number everyone checks

both give you ~128GB of unified memory for local AI, and their memory bandwidth is almost the same — 273 vs 256 GB/s. so the $2,700 gap buys something else entirely. here's what, and who it's actually for.

Ravi Malhotra · 3d ago · 6 min