Apple puts a serious local-model machine on the desk

self.md radar — 2026-08-26 Apple has put two very different local-AI machines on the same desk. One is a small Mac mini with a 32GB ceiling. The other is a Mac Studio that can hold 512GB in unified memory and move it at 1.2TB/s. That is not a spec-sheet footnote: it draws a much clearer line between running a helpful model nearby and treating a Mac as a serious private compute box.