What trade-offs?
I have never owned an Apple computer, so my trade-offs are none, but I'm curious on your thoughts.
Right now I'm struggling with using built-in graphics or an Nvidia card. I probably won't do much gaming any longer. I decided my free time is better spent building and am very happy with that decision. I am wondering about local LLMs though. I'll need a nice GPU for that.
Versus Apple hardware, it's extremely difficult to match:
1. Size + weight, but this is because Apple gear is all but hermetically sealed.
2. Thermals: nothing I've seen runs as cool under heavy loads as Apple hardware.
3. Acoustics: fan noise is all but non-existent on Apple hardware.
So, by comparison, my Framework AMD Ryzen 7640U runs hot and loud, but only under heavy workloads, like gaming or video editing.
In return, I get complete user serviceability.
By comparison, I have a ThinkPad Carbon X1 Gen 8 (circa 2020) that is lighter, cooler, and quieter than my Framework, but again, it's pretty much welded shut.
If you look at the *new* Frameworks with the Ryzen AI 300 series chip, and you're getting impressive LLM performance with what I understand are better thermals and acoustics.
