How I AI · Monday, July 13, 2026
Alex Finn explains that Mac Studios are suitable for large AI models due to their unified memory, which allows the entire system RAM to be used for processing. However, he notes that the memory bandwidth is low, resulting in very slow response times for complex models like GLM 5.2, which can take up to five minutes per prompt.
“What's very powerful about Macs and the reason why a lot of people are going for them is they have what's called unified memory.”
“So Mac Studios are fantastic for huge big models because you can use unified memory, right?”
“So it is very, very slow. But you have frontier intelligence running on your hardware, which is amazing.”