$10,000 divided by five divided by 12 is only $166.66 a month without interest over 5 years a Mac M2 Ultra or Mac M3 Ultra are easily usable computers over five years, so are most of the medium to high-end laptops that Apple sells for one person or locally in a small company.
It’s not necessarily out of reach or unusable over the course of time, the thing I keep hearing over and over is how usable many people find Mac’s very useable over the course of time, obviously software support plays a big part of that.
On top of that, AI models are getting more useful despite their smaller size. The future is a personal computer future, not a mainframe computer one. Yes, larger computers are useful, but most people will not be using that larger computers, which will be relegated to universities and larger companies.
It’s not necessarily out of reach or unusable over the course of time, the thing I keep hearing over and over is how usable many people find Mac’s very useable over the course of time, obviously software support plays a big part of that.
On top of that, AI models are getting more useful despite their smaller size. The future is a personal computer future, not a mainframe computer one. Yes, larger computers are useful, but most people will not be using that larger computers, which will be relegated to universities and larger companies.