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How is it going to have decent resale when you bought it for $15,000 over MSRP because of a time-limited LLM mass-psychosis?

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=apple+mac+studio+m3+ult...

I think you'd need to tinker quickly, realize anything with CUDA (other than the awful DGX Spark) is better for learning, the prefill is killing your ability to actually run models large enough to justify that RAM, and then cure yourself before the rest of the crowd.




Well obviously I'm not talking about buying over MSRP.


And I am.

Given those models aren't sold at MSRP anymore and are primarily being sought for inference, it's apropos of an article on the costs of inference on Apple Silicon.



Maybe before double posting these links, you should have considered why the eBay sold listings are for thousands over MSRP.

You can't order the Mac Studio with RAM upgrades anymore, and the demand propping up prices is for AI inference


Not sure what you mean by "can't order", both of those links show purchasable, orderable computers with RAM upgrades. You can get the Mac Studio in 12 weeks or the MBP in just a few weeks, with RAM upgrades, by ordering right now on Apple's website.


I don't know why he's being so obtuse, but Apple did discontinue the model with 512 GB of RAM, which is what's being scalped on ebay.


You, uh, can't get the RAM upgrades anymore now. But you? (I) could, when I last clicked the link.




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