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I kept hearing &quot;just buy a Mac and run models locally, it pays for itself&quot; and wanted to check. Sunk Cost takes a machine, a model and how many tokens you use a day, and works out how long the hardware takes to pay back against renting the same model by the token.<p>Obviously there are other reasons to buy your own hardware aside from just saving money on llms but this is just looking at it from a raw cost saving perspective.<p>If you have any ideas on how I can make this more helpful lmk!

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/15 09:37:43