The high-nines of fruit organization are usually not worth running a 400 billion parameter model to catch the last 3 fruit.

Counterpoint; Apple was already selling ~$600-700 Macs with the M1 MBA. If you weren't already in the market for one of those laptops, there is pretty much a 0% chance that these pared-back models will appeal to you.

> Microsoft management clearly has zero respect for its customers.

Apple customers forgot about the golden trophy real quick, huh? https://www.theverge.com/news/737757/apple-president-donald-...

You’ve lost me. How does a tech ceo giving a trinket to the current president indicate any kind of respect or lack thereof towards its users?

The way Tahoe is headed, this is also exactly what's needed to get general users off macOS too.

I'm getting ~30 tok/s on the A3B model with my 3070 Ti and 32k context.

> Do you feel you could replace the frontier models with it for everyday coding? Would/will you?

Probably not yet, but it's really good at composing shell commands. For scripting or one-liner generation, the A3B is really good. The web development skills are markedly better than Qwen's prior models in this parameter range, too.

Not automatically, you have to apply and qualify for Apple's Small Business Program: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/small-business-program...

It's 30% until they approve you.

Their point stands. People are just not going to daisy-chain these together for datacenter use. Apple does not take the workload seriously and macOS is not a suitable OS for mass deployment.

RDMA is the bare minimum we should expect from a system that doesn't support eGPUs and treats PCI like a foreign language. It's not a long-term solution and even Apple themselves cannot deny this: https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/02/some-apple-ai-servers-are-rep...

No their point doesn’t stand because they questioned whether you can use them together. And yes you can. Don’t change the goalposts just because you don’t like the products. Nowhere in their comment does your interpretation even come into the mix.

Nobody uses 5090s in datacenter either

You should expect more, unless you have evidence that conclusively discredits the claim.

> Upgrades sometimes were total jokes, because of thermal throttling there was no point to put more hardware than it could work with.

Part of this has to be blamed on Apple, as the chassis designer and system integrator. Intel did not force them to put an i9 in the 16" MBP, Apple made that decision. Even now, Apple refuses to use the old Touchbar chassis for anything other than passively-cooled base model chips. It's a tacit admission that they know the design failed; it probably would still suck with Pro and Max chips inside them.

The paper-thin unibody, Butterfly keyboard and Touchbar were all unpopular features, but Apple shipped them anyways. It really shouldn't take 4+ years to respond to critical design flaws, especially if you're a trillion-dollar business.