LATEST: Apple just dropped its all-new M6, M5 Pro and M5 Ultra chips, delivering a HUGE upgrade for local AI compute. > M6 Mac mini: Up to 4.8× faster LLM prompt processing than M4, with up to 32GB unified memory, 170GB/s bandwidth and a 12-core GPU featuring Neural Accelerators. > M5 Pro: Up to 64GB unified memory and 307GB/s bandwidth, enabling local execution of quantized 70B-parameter models. > M5 Ultra Mac Studio: Up to 512GB unified memory, 1.2TB/s bandwidth and 4.5× the peak AI compute of M3 Ultra, supporting models with hundreds of billions of parameters. The new chips are designed to run advanced AI models locally without API limits, rate limits or recurring subscriptions. The M5 Ultra starts at $5,499, while the 256GB Mac Studio configuration starts at $9,499.(Coin Bureau)