Can we get proper HDR support first in macOS? If I enable HDR on my LG OLED monitor it looks completely washed out and blacks are grey. Windows 11 HDR works fine.

I follow the MLX team on Twitter and they sometimes post about using MLX on two or more joined together Macs to run models that need more than 512GB of RAM.

A couple of examples:

Kimi K2 Thinking (1 trillion parameters): https://x.com/awnihannun/status/1986601104130646266

DeepSeek R1 (671B): https://x.com/awnihannun/status/1881915166922863045 - that one came with setup instructions in a Gist: https://gist.github.com/awni/ec071fd27940698edd14a4191855bba...

I imagine that M5 Ultra with Thunderbolt 5 could be a decent contender for building plug and play AI clusters. Not cheap, but neither is Nvidia.

Very cool. It requires a fully-connected mesh so the scaling limit here would seem to be 6 Mac Studio M3 Ultra, up to 3TB of unified memory to work with.

Now we need some hardware that is rackmount friendly, an OS that is not fidly as hell to manage in a data center or headless server and we are off to the races! And no, custom racks are not 'rackmount friendly'.

It would be incredibly ironic if, with Apple's relatively stable supply chain relative to the chaos of the RAM market these days (projected to last for years), Apple compute became known as a cost-effective way to build medium-sized clusters for inference.

Also see https://www.engadget.com/ai/you-can-turn-a-cluster-of-macs-i...

This implies you'd run more than one Mac Studio in a cluster, and I have a few concerns regarding Mac clustering (as someone who's managed a number of tiny clusters, with various hardware):

  - The power button is in an awkward location, meaning rackmounting them (either 10" or 19" rack) is a bit cumbersome (at best)
  - Thunderbolt is great for peripherals, but as a semi-permanent interconnect, I have worries over the port's physical stability... wish they made a Mac with QSFP :)
  - Cabling will be important, as I've had tons of issues with TB4 and TB5 devices with anything but the most expensive Cable Matters and Apple cables I've tested (and even then...)
  - macOS remote management is not nearly as efficient as Linux, at least if you're using open source / built-in tooling

To that last point, I've been trying to figure out a way to, for example, upgrade to macOS 26.2 from 26.1 remotely, without a GUI, but it looks like you _have_ to use something like Screen Sharing or an IP KVM to log into the UI, to click the right buttons to initiate the upgrade.

Trying "sudo softwareupdate -i -a" will install minor updates, but not full OS upgrades, at least AFAICT.