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[–] 51 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Seems unlikely to me that there would be a noticeable file IO improvement on a Linux computer over a recent Mac.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, WTF is this post on about? Mac IO performance is pretty great…

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Loads of old macs though, SO still has a "fusion drive" and 8GB RAM (27" imac, they don't do them anymore so she won't upgrade. She even bought a spare) so I get to hear that old swap scratching...

    Otherwise yeah I too call BS.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    Considering that afaik a random Linux distro doesn't work too smoothly on a modern-ish Mac, this may well be the case of old “Win Vista is so much faster! Oh yeah I upgraded the machine too, why do you ask?”

    From what I understand, M* Macs still beat the pants off x86 in CPU performance, and the rest should be on par. Except it's probably easier to choose a GPU fit for the job with a Linux desktop, which impacts LLMs.

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