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Using only this dimension in a vacuum, it sounds like an easy choice, but we're extremely early in this market, and the big providers are already a mess of pricing choices, pricing changes, and sudden quota adjustments for consumers.

Plus, a Mac that's not running inference idles down to 1-5W, only drawing power when it needs to. Datacenters must maximize usage, individuals and their devices don't have to.

A Mac is also the rest of the personal computer!



But it's simply an economic fact that EoS will be more efficient with a task that's so easy to offload somewhere else.




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