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High-memory Mac Studio for real local coding agents — worth ~$9,500 vs cloude subscriptions?

I’m looking for feedback from people who actually use a high-memory Mac Studio (M3/M4/M5 Ultra, ideally 192/256GB+) for daily coding with local LLMs , not just benchmarks. Right now, my company pays about $120/month for Claude for work, and I pay $100/month for Codex for personal projects . Both ar…

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  1. 2026-09-28 22:03 · r/LocalLLM
    High-memory Mac Studio for real local coding agents — worth ~$9,500 vs cloude subscriptions?

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