cheapest I've seen for the M1 Ultra Mac Studio, enjoy
Apple Mac Studio with Apple M1 Ultra Chip, 64GB RAM & 1TB SSD $4996 + Delivery ($0 to Metro Areas / C&C) @ Officeworks
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Broden!
That's 5 TB of corn
Hilarious! Mom said it’s my turn to post this comment next time there’s a special on a product I cannot comprehend nor can afford!
that's only one btc
I'm sure it's stackable.
I don't think I'll enjoy this at all
That's a lot of power, wonder which section of consumers market do they target?
architecture, design, creative production and lawyers firms to open them 500 page pdf file of contracts. Oh and paperweight at your local dentist.
actually only for Adobe users and final cut users. For other industries, they are shit
Adobe works great on the other one too. So just final cut users.
architecture, design
Try running Revit on it.
After effects will eat this all for breakfast and ask for me.
After effects called and was asking for you?
Meanwhile davinci will have done the job already and be relaxing on the beach
Based on the comment section for previous deals - system builders, gamers, basic users.
Gamers?
How good is the graphics ?On my base level M1 MacBook Air I get World of Warcraft playing at medium settings around 50-60 FPS. I don't play it for long though due to the heat it produces (Air's don't have active cooling).
I imagine this beast would get maximum settings 30-60 FPS. And cooling would be less of a problem due to the existance of active cooling
@Zythyx: World of Warcraft is 19 years old lol. You could run it on a $50 used laptop from 10 years ago
@Nedkellyinthebush: World of Warcraft has been updated with major changes at least 10 times since 2004. Compare the 2004 specs to the 2023 specs. I dare you, try to play WoW on a $50 10 year old laptop. If you can get 30 FPS, I'll PayID you the cost of the laptop.
Just a joke.
On a more serious note
- there are various websites and subreddits on game compatibility with Mac
- There have also been some recent launches of native games eg Resident Evil Village.
- check out some articles or videos on the game porting toolkit.
For now, if you're after a gaming PC, it's still going to be a windows system.
Pretend pros.
Someone who got money and like Mac?
Bought 1 to do some excel thanks
Also bought another one for my 4 yo to play Paint
Bad news :(
MS Paint
Operating system: Microsoft Windows
Ironically that one app that's missing on macs!
@CereaL: Yes, Apple marketing team use paintbrush to triple the price & make it look more "valuable".
It's your brain & wellbeing that's more important than Apple's bank account ;)
Can they use bootcamp on this machine?
I remember intel macs being able to run bootcamp.
@t25: I have heard that Parallels is the best option for running Windows on a Mac in 2023. There are other options like VM Ware but Parallels runs extremely fast.
I haven't paid that much for a computer since 1996
Pentium 120 , 32mb RAM , CDRW and a printer that could print in colour of the Encarta CD. I was balling out in ‘96
That's about the same specs as current gen Macs
That was balling out. At the time I had a 486dx 75Mhz and 4MB RAM.
"We haven't had that spirit here since 1969"
Bought one for running my plex server
Bet you didn't buy plex pass after emptying your pocket for this
Ram upgradable?
available for download
No the architecture doesn’t support it, like your phone the RAM is inside the SoC.
Still kicking myself for not jumping on the 64GB/4TB M1 Max 16 inch MBP deal for less than this. I know Max is worse than Ultra, but 4TB is more than 1TB. And screen is better than no screen.
That deal will go down as an all time miss for me as well. Had it in the cart, thought it would get cheaper…
I was early for that, and picked up the 14in MBP. However a part of me wishes I got the 16in instead. The larger size used to bother me alot, but it's not anymore, however that unit is very heavy.
Larger size comes with bigger screen, more battery life, better thermals, slightly better speakers and touchpad and keyboard.
However, I'm thinking of picking up something else too like an ASUS ROG Ally.
Well-to-do friend asking if this can do emails.
No it is too fast
Ok, so need to master speed-reading first.
No
So many comedians in here with totally original jokes.
Indeed……
Bikies.
More value for free, instead of buying Apple & getting poor Fast ;)
because AUstralia is an innovative country
Think smart
would M3 max mac Studio be faster than this?
Yes, but the M3 is not as fast as the M4.
but m3 max will be cheaper than this not won't be long to release
not as fast as the M4
given global climate and energy priorities, you can’t assume this.
BMW makes the M3.
They introduced the smaller M2 which is kinda like a hot hatch. Then they now offer the M4. What ticks my OCD off is why the hell did BMW name the 3-door version the M4 and the 4-door version the M3.
Depends on your workload. Embarrassingly parallel tasks benefit from having 20 cores (m1 ultra) vs unknown number of cores (m3 max), possibly 12 but some speculate 16 cores. If a m3 max is actually 16 on the 3nm process, that's looking good for m3 max, except that there could be two flavours of m3 max, and 16 core macs might cost closer to the m1 ultra macs than 10 core m1 max macs.
Obviously it would be, however it'd be worse dollar/productivity. The gen on gen improvements are pretty small.
3nm is a genuine improvement
I think that m3 max will definitely have better dollar/productivity over the M1 ultra. The m1 ultra Mac studio is literally $3000 more than the M1 max, and it's not double the productivity (except for short bursts).
Buying the ultra is just like buying a luxury car. Definitely not more affordable for the productivity. Two Camrys can move ten people at max speed 200km/h and a Tesla Model Y costs double but can only move five at 250km/h. Better acceleration but why do you really need it unless you are a police car?
& AMD Zen 5, i9-13900KS even faster for multitasking (16, 24 cores at 5.5,5.7GHz vs 10 at 3.8GHz )
Interesting that a self described 'tech visionary' is still using GHz as a measure of CPU performance.
Mac can't be compared with PC
A system that can't be serviced shouldn't cost 5 grand
I agree the SSD should be replaceable but the RAM would never be replaceable because thats just how ARM works (well it technically can be replaceable but massive performance losses).
Massive?
How likely is SSD failure though?
100% likely, but the kicker is that you just don't know how long away that will be. All storage dies eventually - could be tomorrow, could be in 10 years.
@Nom: Right. Would this affect apple refurbished machines? I mean, is the lifespan of SSD on refurbs reduced compared to new machines?
@Nedkellyinthebush: Well not really.
SSDs do wear out with use - but it's not wear that usually kills them.
So your used machine might only have say 70% measured life left on the SSD - but the drive could die next year at 68% remaining, or it could last another ten years.
There's just no way to know.The important thing is backup backup backup 👍
Dodeca-Core
Wow the great part of the new trend to add more cores all the time and give them Latin names is we're are all learning great new words to sound like scientists
Duo- two
Deca- ten
Dodeca- twelveDodecahedron 12 side shape
The upcoming M3 will be a stellated rhomicosidodecahedron.
This deal is the m1 ultra, which has 20 cores, might be described as icosacore. However, the architecture is reallly somethimg like two m1 max 10 core with a communication layer in the middle, so
Diplo - double set of
Deca - ten
Core - core (English core is likely derived from Latin "core" via Old French "cors")
DiplodecacoreSo m1 is kinda like the old school dual socket system on a chip to meet those core counts
Or the old school pentium 4/D where two separate cpus were melded together in a hurry pretending to be unified dual core.
It is odd though most languages I've seen
12 is ten followed by 2
Ju(ten)-ni(two)
And 20
ni(two)-Ju(ten)most languages I've seen
Any other examples besides Japanese? I think you'll find most languages don't have as logical a counting system as the sinoxenic East Asian languages…
And i mentioned dodeca because that is the specification p age office works has put
Primary Processor Type
Apple M1 Ultra Chip
Processor Clock Speed
0 GHz
Number of Processor Cores
Dodeca-Core🦕
Dodeca is Greek, not Latin (which would be duodecim).
No, I didn't have a girlfriend in high school.
This or my kids school fees?
Sell your kids, buy 2 mac studios.
- Take kids out of school
- Put kids into work
- ????
- Profit!!!
Surprised this is not out of stock yet. What a great deal.
13900K + a Radeon GPU will be faster and much much cheaper.. Expandable storage at <$75/TB.. cheap RAM, upgradable, replaceable parts..
Even faster than M2 Ultra and 14900K is around the corner I think. (See custom hardware section here https://github.com/devMEremenko/XcodeBenchmark)
But it's against Apple's EULA so don't even think about itFor what applications and use cases? Any links to benchmarks?
You'll also have significantly higher power draw and noise for such a system.
Worth considering the M2 Ultra Mac Studio on the Apple Edu store for $700 more.
M1 Ultra is still excellent, but I’d be taking the 18-month newer machine for the extra.
If anybody is concerned with this not having enough RAM, 64GB on a Mac is like 128GB on a Windows machine.
Lol. No - ram is ram. If you actually needed 128gb on windows (ie. A real use case and not 5000 chrome tabs), chances are you're going to need 128gb on Mac.
The joke is that whenever 8GB MacBook deals are posted, Apple fanboys say that it is the equivalent of 16GB on Windows. Sorry it wasn't clear that it was a joke, but the first dozen jokes I thought of had already been posted.
If what you say is true that the CPU is flexing all that 128GB memory…. my question is how much VRAM does this have?
Cheap toaster
Lol just lol, people actually buy this crap?
Is this suitable for browsing the Internet and checking email?
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Thanks, bought 5.