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- Federico Viticci has spent the past several days testing the currently top-of-the-line M5 Ultra Mac Studio configured with 256 GB of RAM for MacStories.
- Viticci describes the M5 Ultra Mac Studio as a 'dream machine' to run local AI agents and characterizes it as a massive leap over the M3 Ultra specifically for prompt processing and generation.
Why it matters: With 256 GB of unified memory and a generational jump over the M3 Ultra, the M5 Ultra Mac Studio gives AI developers and power users a workstation-class option to run large language models locally — reducing cloud dependency for on-device inference workloads that previously required remote servers.
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