EDUCATION & TRAINING
What an M4 Max Actually Does With a 70B Model
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About This Tutorial
Cross-posted here for the community. If you're shopping for an LLM workstation in 2026, the default mental model is still "NVIDIA GPU, lots of VRAM, big tower." That's not wrong, but it's also not the only correct answer anymore. Apple Silicon - M3, M4, M5 - has quietly become one of the best AI development boxes on the market, and almost nobody outside of MLX twitter is talking about the actual numbers. Here's what an M4 Max really does, where it crushes NVIDIA, where it doesn't, and why I built SiliconMon to see what's happening underneath.