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Rig A
Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024)
Apple · mac
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Rig B
Boston Dynamics Spot
Boston Dynamics · edge
Change
- 1X Neo
- Agility Robotics Digit
- Alibaba Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct (Q4 quant)
- AMD Instinct MI300X
- AMD Instinct MI325X
- AMD Instinct MI355X
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7
- Apple Mac Pro (M2 Ultra, 2023)
- Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)
- Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024)
- Apptronik Apollo
- Aurora
- AWS Trainium2
- Boston Dynamics Atlas
- Boston Dynamics Spot
- Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 3
- El Capitan
- Figure 02
- Frontier (OLCF-5)
- Google Cloud TPU v5p
- Groq Language Processing Unit
- Intel Gaudi 3 HL-325L
- MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid
- NVIDIA B100
- NVIDIA B200
- NVIDIA DGX B200
- NVIDIA DGX H200
- NVIDIA DGX Spark
- NVIDIA Eos DGX SuperPOD
- NVIDIA GB200
- NVIDIA GB200 NVL72
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper
- NVIDIA H100
- NVIDIA H200
- NVIDIA HGX B200
- NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
- OpenAI GPT-5
- SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
- Sanctuary AI Phoenix
- Tesla Optimus
- The Stargate Project
- Unitree B2
- Unitree G1
- Unitree H1
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MSRP (USD)
3,499
74,500
| Spec | Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024) | Boston Dynamics Spot |
|---|---|---|
| MSRP (USD)↓ better | 3,499 | 74,500 |
| Battery WH | — | 564 |
| Canonical Name | — | Boston Dynamics Spot |
| Chip | Apple M4 Max | — |
| Commercial Release Year | — | 2,020 |
| CPU Cores Options | 14, 16 | — |
| CPU Efficiency Cores | 4 | — |
| CPU Perf Cores 14core | 10 | — |
| CPU Perf Cores 16core | 12 | — |
| Current Price Published | — | false |
| Deployment Status | — | commercial |
| Display Brightness Nits HDR Peak | 1,600 | — |
| Display PPI | 254 | — |
| Display Resolution H | 2,234 | — |
| Display Resolution W | 3,456 | — |
| Display Size IN | 16.2 | — |
| DOF | — | 12 |
| Form factor | — | quadruped |
| FOV Degrees | — | 360 |
| GPU Cores Options | 32, 40 | — |
| IP Rating | — | IP54 |
| Joints PER LEG | — | 3 |
| Legs | — | 4 |
| Length IN | — | 43.3 |
| Length MM | — | 1,100 |
| MAX Slope Degrees | — | 30 |
| MAX Speed M S | — | 1.6 |
| Memory Bandwidth GB S 14core | 410 | — |
| Memory Bandwidth GB S 16core | 546 | — |
| Neural Engine Cores | 16 | — |
| Operating Temp MAX C | — | 55 |
| Operating Temp MIN C | — | -20 |
| Operating Temp MIN C ABS | — | 20 |
| Payload DC Voltage MAX V | — | 58.8 |
| Payload DC Voltage MIN V | — | 35 |
| Payload KG | — | 14 |
| Payload LBS | — | 30.9 |
| Payload Power W PER Port | — | 150 |
| Range M | — | 4 |
| Recharge Minutes | — | 60 |
| Runtime Minutes | — | 90 |
| SSD TB Options | 1, 2, 4, 8 | — |
| Standing Height MM | — | 610 |
| Status Checked | — | 2026-09-24 |
| Step Height MM | — | 300 |
| Successor | MacBook Pro with M5 Pro / M5 Max | — |
| Successor 16in M5 MAX Price USD | 3,899 | — |
| Successor 16in M5 PRO Price USD | 2,699 | — |
| Successor M5 MAX Bandwidth GB S | 614 | — |
| Successor M5 MAX Memory MAX GB | 128 | — |
| Superseded ON | 2026-03-03 | — |
| Unified Memory GB Options | 36, 48, 64, 128 | — |
| Vendor | — | Boston Dynamics |
| Weight KG | — | 33.8 |
| Weight LBS | — | 74.5 |
| Width IN | — | 19.7 |
| Width MM | — | 500 |