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I guess it depends on your definition of perfect - cheap, good or fast.
This thing is probably going to cost at least $20K USD.
Edit:
"Next year's base M7 processor is expected to arrive in the first half of 2027 and will also upgrade memory bandwidth to about 240 GB/s."
That's...really fucking slow. What's the goal here - CGI, engineering sims, game dev etc? 1.5TB is cool but at 240GB/s that will crawl for AI use.
Comparison: this is about $100K, for 7.2TB/s, 252GB VRAM (+500GB system ram, so closer to 750GB total)
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-station/
Something got reported on incorrectly because the M5 Max's have 614 GB/s today, and the Ultra M4 machine's (not laptops) are 819 and that's 3 generations behind a M7 if they make an M7 ultra machine.
$ for $ you'll get more video ram than paying for a 5090, but it won't be as fast and can't train well.
Before the ram price decable, you could get a 192gb M4 Ultra for ~10k CAD.
While Apple computers generally will have better support, they will be very slow due to unified memory itself. I'm not sure if this is actually the future.