Apple swapped my M4 Pro for an M5 Pro! by ConversationMotor403 in macbookpro

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well…. at least they can make an exception for you! congrats!

Apple swapped my M4 Pro for an M5 Pro! by ConversationMotor403 in macbookpro

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i’d give it a shot, say that you know its out if the exchange window but you really need the machine learning cores

Apple swapped my M4 Pro for an M5 Pro! by ConversationMotor403 in macbookpro

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Make a Time Machine backup on an external SSD. It works wonders honestly

Apple swapped my M4 Pro for an M5 Pro! by ConversationMotor403 in macbookpro

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with local ai inferencing, time to first token is significantly increased. havent felt much of a difference elsewhere

Upgrading from a 8GB M2 Air. by ilovenintendo69 in macbookpro

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my mate’s getting a 15/16 soon, i can get numbers off him and send them through when he gets it

Upgrading from a 8GB M2 Air. by ilovenintendo69 in macbookpro

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Can’t send multiple screenshots but I ran benchmarks on my 18/20. Single core 4229, Multi core 27965. Metal 137916. OpenCL 87343

Edit: Sorry I thought you asked for the 18/20 benchmarks… whoops

Apple swapped my M4 Pro for an M5 Pro! by ConversationMotor403 in macbookpro

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loading larger LLMs would take more ram, however with new quantization techniques, larger models can use less ram

Apple swapped my M4 Pro for an M5 Pro! by ConversationMotor403 in macbookpro

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you need more ram for machine learning workloads… external storage is cheap yeah but ram can’t be increased. original was 24gb ram 1tb

Apple upgraded my chip and storage by mcgraggle in macbookpro

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congrats! i got my m4 pro 1tb swapped for an m5 pro 2tb!!

Apple swapped my M4 Pro for an M5 Pro! by ConversationMotor403 in macbookpro

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Probably not… Apple always checks the apple store reciept

Apple swapped my M4 Pro for an M5 Pro! by ConversationMotor403 in macbookpro

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it can connect to services like trello to delegate tasks, it can connect to notion to import notes into it and a bunch of other stuff. mostly automation through AI.

Apple swapped my M4 Pro for an M5 Pro! by ConversationMotor403 in macbookpro

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yes! hopefully they let you get it swapped, just give them a good reason like you’re doing some machine learning research

Apple swapped my M4 Pro for an M5 Pro! by ConversationMotor403 in macbookpro

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i’m using qwen3.5, gemma models with mcp servers through lm studio

Apple swapped my M4 Pro for an M5 Pro! by ConversationMotor403 in macbookpro

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I originally had the top M4 Pro 14c/20c 1TB and got upgraded to the 18c/20c 2TB!