Yesterday I ran qwen3.5:27b with an M1 Max and 64 GB of ram. I have even run Llama 70B when llama.cpp came out. These run sufficiently well but somewhat slow but compared to what the improvements with the M5 Max it will make it a much faster experience.

I don't know that there would be a huge overlap between the people who would fall for this type of marketing and the people who want to run LLMs locally.

There definitely are some who fit into this category, but if they're buying the latest and greatest on a whim then they've likely got money to burn and you probably don't need to feel bad for them.

Reminds me of the saying: "A fool and his money are soon parted".

In retrospect, was there a better place to learn about the cruelty of the world than runescape? Must've got scammed thrice before I lost the youthful light in my eye

There used to be a polite way to call this out, the "Steve Jobs's reality distortion field".