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How would you spend $5K–$6K on a local AI machine?

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I've been thinking about it quite a lot. MacStudio M5 Ultra 96GB MacStudio M5 Max 128GB DGX Spark 128GB 2x NVIDIA 3090 GPU Desktop 48GB MacMini M6 24GB and invest the rest to cloud APIs Wait for RTX Spark and see how much it will cost Strix Halo 128GB After writing this post and discussing it in th…

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  1. 2026-09-16 20:01 · r/LocalLLM
    How would you spend $5K–$6K on a local AI machine?

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