512GB Mac Studio(www.apple.com)
5 pointsby immutlexan hour ago5 comments
  • evanjrowley32 minutes ago
    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.
  • WarOnPrivacy35 minutes ago
    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

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

    • bigyabaian hour ago
      GLM-5.3 would be bottlenecked by the M5's GPU, here. I don't have any hard numbers, but Apple Silicon is known for weak prefill performance on larger models (yes, even MoEs).
      • evanjrowley27 minutes ago
        Good to know. Private GLM-5.3 is really the one use-case I can imagine for a system like this - It does very well with cybersecurity tasks, which are either blocked for most people by current providers, or on their way to getting blocked based on the regulatory/political trends. Such a capability could become very valuable when supply becomes artificially limited, although I expect the Chinese labs will be the last hold-outs. Imagine not being able to do security hardening on your own tech because government-imposed guardrails decide your legitimate prompts appear "risky". In such a world, what would an unconstrained cyber-capable model be worth?
  • rugberrydavean hour ago
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