Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Officially Released

nsagent

Bought it without looking too closely to make sure I got in before the rush (comes Nov 25-Dec 3 before my M5 Ultra 256GB which is supposedly shipping end of January). After taking a look the $11.5k premium over the 256GB might not be worth it. Gonna have to mull over the decision and possibly buy two 256GB machines instead (which might be the smarter option).

spwa4

* 96GB - $6,799 * 256GB - $10,799 * 512GB - $22,299 (M5 Ultra with just 1TB of storage)

sgt

Been waiting for this!

tristanj

Holy price increase, in 2025 the equivalent M3 Ultra (32-core CPU / 80-core GPU with 512GB of RAM) cost $9,499. Now the equivalent M5 Ultra (36-core CPU / 80-core GPU with 512GB of RAM) is priced at $22,299.

swader999

I guess I'll drive my 15 year old Honda CRV for a few more years.

minimaxir

I've had my eye on the normal Mac Studio M5 Ultra (normal plebeian 96GB RAM) and the release (edit: ship) date there keeps slipping, now into January. I'm surprised Apple is pushing the backlog even more.

Zenbit_UX

Top spec build is $29,799 + tx. While local AI is certainly an enticing prospect I can’t really imagine myself ever seeing a return on that investment. Further they’ve already begun hyping the M7 Ultra and even if that got delayed until 2028, this machine only being SOTA for 1.5yrs is a hilariously short window in which to maximize your investment.

dzonga

chinese memory providers can't come online soon enough. prices shoot by just choosing the 128gb option and even worse the 512gb option.

thefz

Laughed at the 2499 starting price until I saw the 5499

outside1234

The fully loaded version costs $29,799.00!!!!

goudarziha

Is this good enough for light web browsing, emails and word editing?

bcvvvy

ALL the Studio configurations are cheaper than a Lenovo P4 with AMD consumer CPU, no GPU and shit storage.

nostromo

Two things I wish I knew: 1. Will the RAM shortage turn into a RAM glut & crash in the next year? 2. Even if that happens, will Apple just keep prices sky high anyway?

kingstnap

Eye watering prices as we expected. The 512 GB ultra seems too expensive. You can buy multiples of the cheaper one. Like 4 of the 128 GB max, or 2 of the 256 GB ultras for less. (And end up with more total bandwidth and storage and compute). Unless there is some sort of restriction on number per customer.

1broseidon

This is just to make me feel poor for "only" having an M5 Max 128GB model. Which is insane compute for a home computer, but now I already feel behind one month into it.