512GB Mac Studio

immutlex

Has any individual/SMB purchased this yet? Aware the ROI isn't there for most individuals that don't heavily use LLM for coding or multi agentic workflows -- but for those that it does make sense this is ~$68k cheaper than the next alternative making this the most realistic option for consumer grade access to frontier models. Specifically interested if anyone has ran GLM-5.3 (753B MoE) in 4-bit on a 512GB Mac Studio. Looking for real world usage numbers and/or any benchmarks you might have performed. Thanks!

gnabgib

Dupe/Discussion (67 points, 1 week ago, 82 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50277166

WarOnPrivacy

When the page first loads, it shows a different price for ~1sec. It quickly overwrites that and displays the much larger, eye watering figure. 1st load ref: https://i.postimg.cc/YC5V5yZH/prerewrite.png

evanjrowley

All roughly the same price, for a consumer who has won the lottery: - 1x 512 GB Mac Studio with the 4 TB disk storage option. - 4x Nvidia GB10s (total 512 GB RAM) each connected with a 100 GiB/s link to a Mikrotik CRS504-4XQ-IN. - 3x Ryzen AI Max+ 495 192GB systems (total 576 GB RAM), connected via a 40 GiB/s link directly to each other.

jonplackett

You can get it up to 29k with max storage.

mannyv

Ship date is 3/5/27 for the 512GB model. Oddly enough, Apple Upgrade isn't an option.

drsalt

apple always charged ridiculous numbers for ram and disk space.

vivzkestrel

- gonna ask you HN smart folks a deep question - one one hand, the 8GB RAM Mac mini with M6 as cheap as it maybe is an absolute waste of money when it comes to running LLMs - on the other hand the most expensive machine is right here - what is the cheapest most expensive machine you can buy capable of providing you the best ROI for running LLMs locally?

Naru41

I hate to sound like Sam Altman, but is there actually any point in having 512 GB of RAM other than just pure tech hoarding?