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Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter
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Offline Agentic Coding part 3: Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter. Published 2026-05-17 Apple silicon costs more than OpenRouter. At ~50-100 watts under load, and ~$0.20 per kWh, my M5 MacbookPro will cost a few cents per hour. Accelerated depreciation (if any) from shortening the lifespan of the device will be more expensive than the electricity. At a few tens of tokens per second this work...
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