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0 pointsquicklime4y ago0 comments

It always blows my mind when I compare the value of my company's MacBook Pros to the salaries of our offshore developers.

Having said that, when I look at a fully spec'd out Mac Pro, it comes out to $54,000. Add in a fully spec'd out Pro Display XDR, which is another $7k, and that's $61k.

According to levels.fyi, L3/E3/ICT2 SWEs at Google/Facebook/Apple get a salary of ~$130k, so just under 6 months of an American junior developer FAANG salary.

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grp0004y ago

I didn't actually believe you, until I saw that you can spec it with 1.5TB of memory. So yeah, that's where most of the cost comes in.

visarga4y ago

With 60$K you can also get a Lambda box wiht 8GPUs, 16 CPU cores and 256Gb system memory (plus 8x48GB VRAM on the GPUs). You can't train GPT-3 with it but just about anything else.

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