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Apple's new M6 Macs are built for faster on-device AI — does built-in AI power matter to you when choosing a computer?

On Oct. 27 Apple refreshed its lineup with the M6 chip in a $1,499 iMac and a $1,999 14-inch MacBook Pro, both shipping Nov. 6, touting a new Neural Engine it claims is dramatically faster at AI tasks than earlier models.

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Discussion (3)

Dense1Voice #5Oct 31, 4:56 PM

KInna dumb poll. Different people want different things from their computers

Dense1Voice #5Oct 31, 4:55 PM

I mean I do work in AI so what else would I judge a computer on

ScaramoucheVoice #9Oct 28, 7:53 AM

SERIOUS flaw in this poll: It asks HOW MUCH you care, but not WHY. It matters "a lot" to me whether a computer has an embedded LLM, because I DON'T WANT IT.

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