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Open original source ↗Can a Mac Studio PAY for itself in AI tokens?
✅ $AAPL & $META just teamed up to run Meta's new open Muse model on Macs.
✅ It needs two 512GB M5 Ultra Mac Studios. That one isn't on sale yet.
✅ A Mac Studio with M5 Ultra starts at $5,499.
➡️ Save $500 a month in tokens? Paid back in ~11 months.
➡️ Save $1,000 a month? ~5.5 months.
✅ The 256GB version already runs over $10,000.
➡️ At $500 a month, that's 20+ months.
✅ Renting that same model: $1.25 per million tokens in, $4.25 out.
➡️ $500 buys ~118 million output tokens a month.
➡️ Agents burn ~5x the tokens people do.
➡️ IMO $500 is LOW for anyone running agents all day.
🚨 Local models still trail the best closed ones. Speed & power bills count.