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£10k for local AI: M5 Ultra 256GB, 2× DGX Spark, or wait for the 512GB Ultra?

QA/QC inspection professional, looking for advice before I spend. Use case: thousands of scanned inspection reports, material certs and NDT tables, many client-confidential, so they must stay on my own kit. I want an always-on box at home to OCR difficult scans, pull values into structured data, an…

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  1. 2026-10-11 05:55 · r/LocalLLaMA
    M5 Ultra 256GB or 2x DGX Spark? Which one?
  2. 2026-10-10 22:14 · r/LocalLLM
    £10k for local AI: M5 Ultra 256GB, 2× DGX Spark, or wait for the 512GB Ultra?

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