Thanks for the reply, still reading here. Yeah thanks to the comments and reading some benchmarks I abandoned the idea of getting an Apple, it’s just too slow.

I was hoping to test Qwen 32B or llama 70b for running longer contexts, hence the apple seemed appealing.

Somehow I always end up hating Proton. I was using TOR Browser to create an account and they wouldn’t let me. I had to give either another email or my phone number, and I’m not willing to do either. I even tried creating a throwaway with mailbox.org (works using TOR) and sending the confirmation email there but it never arrived, so I gave up on Proton.

I also tried Tuta and they wouldn’t let me create an account at all using TOR. So eventually I’m sticking with mailbox.org