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4/4/2026HardwareMachine Learning
Why Your Old Xeon Is Still Painfully Slow for LLMs — AVX Explained
AVX, AVX2, and AVX-512 are not marketing buzzwords. They are the difference between an LLM that spits out text in real time and one that sits there grinding through a single prompt for minutes. Here is why your older hardware is holding you back, even if you bolted a modern GPU onto it.
4/4/2026HardwareDevelopment
24GB Mac Mini vs 64GB HP Z620
I have two machines on my desk that could not be more different. The M4 Mac Mini is a silver sip of coffee from Apple. The HP Z620 is a tower workstation that hums under my monitor. Here is how they compare as a daily driver and a development workstation.