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MacBook Pro can cost less at 64GB, but RTX Spark has a credible AI performance lead in early matched tests. Personal buyers need to compare actual configurations, rather than platform slogans.

Google’s new embedder can search across text, images, video and audio on local hardware. Its compression options expose a harder product decision: how much space to save before losing the searches users came for.

The new 64GB configuration starts $1,000 above the original 128GB model's launch price. Persistent memory shortages make that compromise understandable—and make a discretionary purchase harder to recommend.

NVIDIA’s hardware partners will release a 64GB unified-memory tier of the Grace Blackwell-based DGX Spark on October 23, aimed at smaller local AI inference, agent workflows, and multi-unit clustering.