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Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

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Re: Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

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Post by aleph_minus_one »

GeekyBear wrote: post #109

The rumor from Gurman is that the M5 Ultra Mac Studio ships in the first half of this year. This may just be a sign that the M5 Ultra Mac Studio is shipping sooner rather than later, as it's common for Apple to push out ship dates for soon to be replaced products. We do have leaked benchmarks showing that the M5 Max outperforms the M3 Ultra currently shipping in the Mac Studio, so buying an M3 Ultra Studio right now…

Slightly off-topic side remark:

Every mathematician and computer scientist should feel deeply confused that the M... Ultra is more powerful than the M... Max.

Why? Because if something is the maximum, there doesn't exist anything larger/better. :-)

Re: Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

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Post by ganoushoreilly »

saurik wrote: post #51

So, the question I wonder: is that it for this tier? Will we even see a 512GB variant of the next model?

I suspect they'll still want to offer it given the push they've been making over the last year with RDMA. My guess is the 512gb or larger studio will largely be a byproduct of the systems they're designing for their own AI efforts in the datacenter. I don't think this is the end of it for the longer term.

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Post by codealchemy »

irusensei wrote: post #57
pera wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah power consumption (and performance per watt) is the main reason I keep buying Raspberry Pi, I haven't find anything similar on that regard, specially for pi zeros

It's also very hard to encounter x86 machines that can be powered from PoE.

True for base PoE (802.3af, 15.4W), but if you have PoE+ or greater (802.3at, 30W and up) you can start to power more common PCs - I’m running a couple repurposed Chromeboxes from PoE++ adapters.

Re: Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

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Post by groundzeros2015 »

lenerdenator wrote: post #45

Now how am I supposed to develop Electron apps and use Chrome? In all seriousness, though, as one of the uninitiated, what would be the value of hosting LLMs on a machine like this that has a lot of memory that you pay for up front versus some sort of VPC-based approach?

Have you seen how much GPUs cost to rent? Note that this memory is shared between CPU and GPU.

Re: Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

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Post by groundzeros2015 »

Culonavirus wrote: post #44

It's not a shortage, it's a cartel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVzeHTlWIDY

I hope so. If the government isn’t protecting them all we need to do is wait for new participants in the market.

Re: Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

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Post by kube-system »

guerrilla wrote: post #110

I wonder if the war with Iran could actually fix the RAM shortage. If this continues it really could put a damper on datacenter rollout.

How much of the capital investment that’s fueling the current expansion is already allocated?

Re: Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

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Post by user_7832 »

aleph_minus_one wrote: post #111
GeekyBear wrote: post #109

The rumor from Gurman is that the M5 Ultra Mac Studio ships in the first half of this year. This may just be a sign that the M5 Ultra Mac Studio is shipping sooner rather than later, as it's common for Apple to push out ship dates for soon to be replaced products. We do have leaked benchmarks showing that the M5 Max outperforms the M3 Ultra currently shipping in the Mac Studio, so buying an M3 Ultra Studio right now…

Slightly off-topic side remark: Every mathematician and computer scientist should feel deeply confused that the M... Ultra is more powerful than the M... Max. Why? Because if something is the maximum , there doesn't exist anything larger/better. :-)

This thing has been going on for a while unfortunately. If I told you "Here's an "air", a vanilla, and a "pro"", what would you expect? The vanilla is base, air is lighter, and pro is nicer, right?

Well, for iPads, the base has (had? Haven't closely followed them for a while) an older CPU for some reason. And the Air is actually a "Pro-lite", rather than a weight optimized version.

Don't get started on where the mini sits, or what happens if you want "nicer" features like 60hz+ displays in a small form factor... a feature that budget android tablets have had for years.

Re: Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

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Post by nickthegreek »

marcuskaz wrote: post #89

Inventory is tight too, if you look at delivery/shipping times for Mac Studio and Mac Mini, I'm seeing April/May

i just walked into a microcenter yesterday where not only did they have a huge stock of mac mini, they are all advertised 15% off and runs openclaw.
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