Best moment to sell a Mac Studio?

[chfilm]

Hey guys,
I own an m2ultra mac studio with the max amount of cores, 128gb of ram and 2tb of storage. It's still a beast of a machine but lately I found myself relying pretty much only on my m4max macbook pro, even though the ram constraint is real and sometimes annoys the hell out of me for motion design and editing.

I am definitely in the market for a new m5 ultra once it comes out, but no one knows when that'll be. I just asked myself if maybe right now is the perfect time to sell the m2ultra because it's so hard to come by a new mac studio right now and especially with a decent amount of ram.

Do you think that prices will drop significantly once the m5 ultra comes out? Should I try to sell it right now and survive on the macbook until presumably late autumn, or you think it wont make much of a difference because memory prices are just gonna stay high and give my old machine a nice price bump.?

 

[Ifti]

I don't see memory prices coming back down for a while yet - at least another year

 

[velocityg4]

With 128GB RAM it’s definitely a good time. Because of the shortages I wouldn’t expect the M5 anytime soon. I think MacBooks are Apple’s priority for memory allocation at the moment.

When they do release the M5. You’ll be hard pressed to even order one at 128GB. Before the back order queue is filled up.

 

[benholt]

Same boat here — M2 Ultra Studio + 16" MBP M3 Max — and I went back and forth on this in the spring. The thing that kept me from selling was gap risk: if you offload the Studio now and the M5 Ultra slips into next spring, you're stuck on the laptop for six months, and you already said the RAM ceiling annoys you for motion work. Used 128GB M2 Ultras are holding price right now precisely because new 128GB anything is basically unobtainable, so waiting another quarter doesn't really cost you much on resale. I'd rather eat $300 of eventual depreciation than burn a render weekend on a thermally-throttled MBP.