Fund the local-AI Mac Studio for Hardware #001
Apple Mac Studio · M4 Max · by Matthias
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The hardware
- Product
- Apple Mac Studio
- Configuration
- M4 Max
- cpu
- 14-core
- gpu
- 32-core
- chip
- M4 Max
- memory gb
- 64
- storage tb
- 1
- Reference price
- €2,899
Required specs: Apple M4 Max, 64GB unified memory, 1TB SSD, 32-core GPU.
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Every euro is recorded in the public ledger. The machine is bought within 7 days of hitting target, with the receipt uploaded as evidence. Weekly build updates for 12 weeks. If the campaign is cancelled before purchase, paid sponsorships are refunded.
- What are you building?
- An open toolkit for running and fine-tuning local language models on Apple Silicon — batch document processing, private RAG over your own files, and reproducible eval runs, all offline.
- Why this hardware?
- Local inference on a 64GB M4 Max means models up to ~70B run entirely on-device with no per-token cost and no data leaving the machine. Cloud rental for equivalent sustained use costs more than the machine within months.
- What will you ship?
- Open-source repo (MIT), a written teardown of local-model performance on M4 Max, and 3 short demo videos.
- What do sponsors receive?
- Physical logo spot on the machine for the exposure period, a listing in the public sponsor ledger, a thank-you post, and a copy of the performance teardown before it is published.
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