Frédéric Côté

Self-educated with about twenty years of experience as technician, trainer and adviser specialized for the  #Apple products using #macOS, macOS Server and #iOS

[Frédéric Côté @iFredOS]

@johnternus 🤝 Welcome 🙏🏻! I anticipate your introduction on September 9.

🥹 I noted several pages bearing a clickable “Think different.” footer.

I am excited 🤓!

PS.: Please 🙏🏻 honor the North American history of Lake Ontario, which predates both nations. This should remain uneditable.

[John Ternus @johnternus]

hello

[Tom Greenwald @tomgreenwald]

We compared the M5 Ultra Mac Studio 512GB with 4x DGX Spark and 4x AMD Ryzen AI Halo

The prices are relatively the same ($15-20k), but the trade-offs are noticeable

Compute (prompt processing speed)
- Mac: one chip, all the compute is always usable. Quick on normal prompts, will feel slower on long ones
- Sparks: boxes link over 200GbE, which is fast enough to combine their compute. Fastest of the three, and native FP4 speeds up quantized models even more
- Halos: boxes link over 10GbE, too slow to share work properly. Ends up close to the Mac but somewhat worse

Bandwidth (token generation speed)
- Mac: 512GB on a single bus, faster than a 4090, ~4x the tokens/sec of Spark or Halos
- Sparks: the model splits across boxes and tokens pass through them in sequence, so 4 boxes still generate at 1 box's speed
- Halos: same ceiling as Spark, same reason

Power
- Mac: less than a gaming PC, silent
- Sparks: nearly maxes out a wall circuit, will be hot
- Halos: about half the Sparks, but somewhat hot

The real gap is bandwidth. The Studio will feel noticeably faster. Spark 2 is rumored soon, but it won't matter unless the bandwidth goes way up. Same for AMD, plus better interconnect speeds

[Frédéric Côté @iFredOS]

@LocallyAIApp @PrismML 🙄 Stop it with your requests. MLX ≠ Android.

[Matt Reeves @mattreevesLA]

https://t.co/O0TdgldMdK

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah was invited to speak at today's presentation of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas."

Read the full text of his remarks: https://t.co/CoBfkVOVcy

[Frédéric Côté @iFredOS]

@qn3soldier88 @ClaudeDevs @AnthropicAI

[Frédéric Côté @iFredOS]

@memeking_888 @elonmusk @AnthropicAI 🤣

[Frédéric Côté @iFredOS]

@gregjoz Hi Greg @gregjoz, can you confirm that iPhones have 12GB of RAM now?

[Frédéric Côté @iFredOS]

@BuzzX76621 @PopBase @grok 🤣

[Frédéric Côté @iFredOS]

I just sponsored gnachman. Go sponsor your open source dependencies!

👌🏻Excellent macOS app, a Terminal alternative. Powerful features you cannot imagine! Support a solo developer.

https://t.co/463sAAszjO

[Frédéric Côté @iFredOS]

@yarryruffin @Apple

[Frédéric Côté @iFredOS]

@Gen_X_Vet @Apple Inevitable!?😆 You may not be familiar with the company, but they are committed to maintaining our privacy. They will always seek better solutions to enhance our privacy rather than compromising it.

[Frédéric Côté @iFredOS]

@RockyMtnTDI @Apple

[Frédéric Côté @iFredOS]

🚨 Wake up people! Alexa is the worst shitty technology ever. Always on, always recording. Scary! This is going to be even worse! 🚨

#BanAlexa #PrivacyMatters #scarytech

https://t.co/D1OUe8t5Ey

[Frédéric Côté @iFredOS]

@shubhamc111 @tim_cook

[Frédéric Côté @iFredOS]

@AleTheSpaceGuy @tim_cook You lost me at DUDE!!

[Frédéric Côté @iFredOS]

Vous souvenez‑vous quand vous avez rejoint X ? Moi, oui ! #MonAnniversaireX

[Frédéric Côté @iFredOS]

@OLawdy_ @theapplehub