I've only started digging in. Only thing I know for sure is that my dated laptop won't cut it much longer for this kind of stuff. The problems laptops have is the lack of GPUs (usually). The apple kind seem to have dedicated AI sub processing units in the system chip but I can't tell yet if they're performant enough. Need to do more reading
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I think as the software optimizations come out, the M1 and M2 are going to stay amazing options. I keep filling up my 2TB drive on my Mac, but Stable Diffusion models run pretty amazingly on my MacBook (M1 Max)
Good to know. Also that the bottleneck is the drive. How big are those models?