A Maxed Out M3 Ultra Mac Studio Will Cost You $14,099

[anakin44011]

This my preorder price, I have 8TB thunderbolt storage. 1 TB is good enough. I wish I could go to a tax free state and buy the ultra studio to avoid $754 sales tax.
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BH Photo has a credit card that discounts the state tax. It has saved me thousands. And you can get custom configs - they just aren't available on day one.

 

[Hogswarts]

If you've got six TB5 ports, dedicate two of them to two external SSDs and run them in RAID 0 and you'll get bandwidth that is greater than the internal storage.

That still leaves you with four TB5 for displays or whatever.

OpenZFSonOSX works well for this (various RAID levels), and is free. It also performs checksums on every read to detect data loss early. It just doesn't work properly on my 28-core 2019 Mac Pro, where it reliably crashes the system whenever a ZFS file system is hit hard, but on every other Mac I own it works really well and the file systems are easily made cross-platform compatible with Linux.

 

[jole]

I wonder how this machine compares to my gaming PC, which has an AMD 9800X3D and Radeon RX 7800XT and cost me about $1600 to build with 32GB of RAM and 2TB NVMe storage.

This one can run 16 times larger AI model

 

[TechnoMonk]

BH Photo has a credit card that discounts the state tax. It has saved me thousands. And you can get custom configs - they just aren't available on day one.

I usually buy heavily discounted Mac’s at Micro center. Don’t like the return policy of BH photo.

 

[cicalinarrot]

M3 Ultra, while we're almost at the M5 generation.
This is ridiculous...

Pretty weird marketing choice but... it's not like their delivering obsolete technology.
It shares most specs with M4 (it's an incremental update) and you can configure absolute beasts with that thing.
Y'all act as if they were selling a PowerPC processor.

 

[daveedjackson]

the absolute joke is that I could buy a full spec ultra 2 model now, and the trade in from apple tomorrow would only be £900 - WHAT A JOKE. I had a feeling more ram would be needed - as sometimes I can max out 192 on a graphics project. And well here we are.

 

[museic]

the absolute joke is that I could buy a full spec ultra 2 model now, and the trade in from apple tomorrow would only be £900 - WHAT A JOKE. I had a feeling more ram would be needed - as sometimes I can max out 192 on a graphics project. And well here we are.

That's always been the case though... 24 hours before the M2 Mac Pro was released in June 2023, you could go hog wild on the upgrade ladder, all the way to $50K on a 2019 Mac Pro (4 years old already!!) and turn around and trade it in for ~$3,000.

 

[TechnoMonk]

the absolute joke is that I could buy a full spec ultra 2 model now, and the trade in from apple tomorrow would only be £900 - WHAT A JOKE. I had a feeling more ram would be needed - as sometimes I can max out 192 on a graphics project. And well here we are.

You can return for full refund if you are with in 14 days. Apple in the past has extended return window to 30 days for those who bought previous model just before the launch.

 

[museic]

You can return for full refund if you are with in 14 days. Apple in the past has extended return window to 30 days for those who bought previous model just before the launch.

For sure. The comment I replied to specifically said "trade in" though.

 

[daveedjackson]

it was specifically about the trade in value - it's obscene how under valued it is. I have the maxed out M2 Ultra - which was the best part of 8k - but it's trade in value to apple is £900 - I'd get more on Ebay.