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Mac Studio or something else for power efficiency?

If you live in a country with the highest electricity rates in the world. What would you choose and why? Needed for summarizing large contexts like documents and transcription. I don't need the flagship models so thinking of ~48-64GB of memory. Not open for a Mac mini bcz the memory bandwidth is lo…

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  1. 2026-10-03 23:52 · r/LocalLLM
    Mac Studio or something else for power efficiency?

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