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Picked up a Mac Studio recently because my daily driver Linux desktop hardware was showing its age at about 10 years old (some upgrades along the way). Most impressive to me is that it seems to generate no heat or noise, EVER, despite maxing out every core pretty often with elixir concurrency work.

23/10/25, 6:23 am0 reposts3 likes

Carter Bryden 🇨🇦

@carterbryden.com

23 Oct 2025

Local LLMs, a zillion concurrent processes with elixir, doesn’t seem to matter what it is. It’s just cool as a cucumber at all times. Coming from non M chip hardware, that’s absolutely nuts to me. My old rig would literally be on fire if I did half of this.

Carter Bryden 🇨🇦

@carterbryden.com

23 Oct 2025

This is the first Mac I’ve personally owned. I had a lot of criticisms in the pre-M chip era, it just felt to me like you paid twice as much for branding and kind of weak hardware. But it’s hard to deny how much of a jump the M chips are now, and competitor prices have crept up.