The Solo Stack https://thesolostack.dev Building alone with AI. Legal tech, dev tools, fintech, and the solo builder journey. en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2026 05:34:34 GMT I tested a DGX Spark against my M3 Max for local AI. The Mac won the obvious benchmark. I'm keeping the Spark anyway. https://thesolostack.dev/dgx-spark-vs-m3-max-acceptance-verdict/ https://thesolostack.dev/dgx-spark-vs-m3-max-acceptance-verdict/ I added an NVIDIA DGX Spark (the GB10 Grace-Blackwell box, ~122 GiB of usable unified memory) to a desk that already had an Apple M3 Max with 128 GB. 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