New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

Post by olyjohn » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 1:37 AM UTC

jgwil2 wrote: post #75

joshstrange wrote: post #7

Due to pricing insanity (not that Apple prices weren’t insane before the ram/ssd shortages) I’m not in the market but I do wonder if my next computer should be a Mac Studio instead of a MBP that lives its life docked. Might be better to just run a Studio and Neo for the very few times I actually need remote capabilities.

If all you want to do is remote into your desktop, Neo seems like overkill. Why not just get a $200 Chromebook and save yourself $500?

Post by tqi » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 1:51 AM UTC

joshstrange wrote: post #7

Due to pricing insanity (not that Apple prices weren’t insane before the ram/ssd shortages) I’m not in the market but I do wonder if my next computer should be a Mac Studio instead of a MBP that lives its life docked. Might be better to just run a Studio and Neo for the very few times I actually need remote capabilities.

Post by Sephr » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 1:59 AM UTC

xdertz wrote: post #118

varispeed wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's more bizarre that Apple got caught with pants down. Focused on CPUs and ignored RAM. Seems like miscalculation. If they had their own fab for RAM, they could completely corner the market today.

They have no fab for CPUs, they are manufactured by Samsung and TSMC. The bottleneck is in manufacturing RAM not CPUs so there is nothing Apple can do here.

Post by groundzeros2015 » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 2:20 AM UTC

SoftTalker wrote: post #459

joshstrange wrote: post #7

Due to pricing insanity (not that Apple prices weren’t insane before the ram/ssd shortages) I’m not in the market but I do wonder if my next computer should be a Mac Studio instead of a MBP that lives its life docked. Might be better to just run a Studio and Neo for the very few times I actually need remote capabilities.

I can't really imagine buying a new computer in this market. But I also wonder how long it will be before prices drop again, if ever.

Post by mrheosuper » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 2:22 AM UTC

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #33

blints wrote: post #12

10 grand for 256GB memory. Likely double that for 512GB, but won't be available or finalized until October. Thunderbolt 5 is highest bandwidth external IO available at 120Gb/s. 1.2TB/s claimed max internal memory bandwidth. Not exactly "future proof" for >1T parameter models but good for targeting specific lower-parameter models, or if you can rely on pipeline parallelism and run a cluster.

> Not exactly "future proof" Computers are never "future proof".