M4 Max Studio - preparing to ship, yay!
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JSRinUK
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It’s said 12-14 since I ordered it. That hasn’t changed. I’m kind of expecting it to arrive on Wednesday but if it arrives before Friday (my next day off), I’m good with that.
Awesome! Which one did you get?
JSRinUK
macrumors 6502a
M4 Max, 128GB, 1TB SSD.
I also have a March 17th estimate. My card was charged yesterday and my status was set to "preparing to ship". This was for a binned 60 core GPU M3 Ultra model. The common iPhone order "track by reference" trick does not work yet, so it hasn't actually shipped.
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JSRinUK
macrumors 6502a
I don’t know why I find the word “binned” a bit comical. I know what the word means, but I mean, come on, nothing with 60 GPU cores is “binned” - it’s pretty awesome!
Hopefully yours will arrive sooner than the 17th! These dates are sounding like “before the weekend” or “after the weekend”.
Ifti
macrumors 601
Looking to order at the end of this month (as I'll have some time off of work so can be in for delivery)!
Will also be getting the M4 Max, but with 64GB RAM and 1TB SSD, as well as the Apple Studio Display to go along with it - would have loved an ASD update too, but can't have it all I guess!!
Have sold my MBP M1 Max to make space for the Studio already!
Will also be getting the M4 Max, but with 64GB RAM and 1TB SSD, as well as the Apple Studio Display to go along with it - would have loved an ASD update too, but can't have it all I guess!!
Have sold my MBP M1 Max to make space for the Studio already!
Mine still preparing to Ship at moment uk.
On Apple's website it still says preparing to ship but I got a WhatsApp message from DHL with a tracking number/link, where it says the package leaved DHL shipping facility already
Oh ok thanks
very nice!
Mine has also shipped today, despite the delivery estimate being next week. For those not familiar with the pre-order process, it seems to be the same as a new iPhone where they ship it ahead of time and keep your order in “Preparing to Ship” status until a day or two before you’re actually supposed to get it.
Like Airmk mentioned for DHL above, I was able to see my order as incoming on UPS website via the “My Choice” feature that shows incoming deliveries. The same works for FedEx and their “Manage your deliveries” account, if you already have it set up.
If you’re sitting in “Preparing to ship” for about 2 days, then it probably secretly shipped.
Like Airmk mentioned for DHL above, I was able to see my order as incoming on UPS website via the “My Choice” feature that shows incoming deliveries. The same works for FedEx and their “Manage your deliveries” account, if you already have it set up.
If you’re sitting in “Preparing to ship” for about 2 days, then it probably secretly shipped.
freelance2
macrumors member
My Mar 12-13 delivery shows “preparing to ship” but logging into UPS it has moved from Shenzhen to Chek Lap Kok (Hong Kong), and left there 2 hours ago.
M4 Max, 64 GB, 1TB
M4 Max, 64 GB, 1TB
Fiona FTW
macrumors regular
FWIW my M4 Max 16-40/48GB/1TB due on the 17th is "preparing to ship" to store. So possibly Apple is getting these out quicker than anticipated -- though they could also just sit on the tarmac for a few days too. Is there a backdoor way to track items headed to the store? I'm assuming everything going to a store is packed into in one container and only the container has a UPS tracking number.
wassopotomus
macrumors newbie
Mine is scheduled to arrive Wednesday or Thursday but given that it still says "Preparing to Ship" I can't imagine it's going to make it from China by then. I checked all my accounts on FedEx, UPS & DHL and none show any secret deliveries coming up. I hate that I still get excited about these things. I'm too old to be furiously checking my Apple Store app every hour.
EDIT: UPDATE - I just checked UPS again (I'm such an impatient child!) and it just showed up in Anchorage Alaska. Woo hoo.
EDIT: UPDATE - I just checked UPS again (I'm such an impatient child!) and it just showed up in Anchorage Alaska. Woo hoo.
Velin
macrumors 68020
I am considering this exact configuration.
On the GPU side of things, do you know what the GPU performance equivalent would be on the PC side? For example, would this SOC's GPU compute match, say, AMD's new 9070 or 9070XT? Or perhaps Nvidia's 5070 Blackwell card? Something less?
JSRinUK
macrumors 6502a
I’m afraid I’ve no idea on that. My last “PC” was a Surface Pro 6, and I don’t think that even knew what a GPU was. 🤣
I’d never done much with a GPU until recently when I began dabbling with LLMs on my MacBook Pro (24GB / 1TB). Hopefully someone else will be able to offer some insight.
Depends massively on the task you want to do and how well it is optimized...lets put it this way..... if its gaming and you choose a game that is native MacOS like Baldur's Gate 3 then it's probably going to be equal to a RTX 3060 Ti at QHD from what I remember in benchmarks. Obviously the Mac would smoke it in other things so my main point is....it depends.
shinseiromeo
macrumors 6502
Is anyone upgrading from the m2 studio? I've been holding off on getting that for the new M4 though still having a base 512gb nvme and charging insane pricing for their storage is truly holding me back.
Allen_Wentz
macrumors 601
Yes, using the term binned makes no sense really. Of course Apple uses different chip yields, etc. for different usages. It is how it is done.
Velin
macrumors 68020
Yes. It can be difficult to conceptualize what exactly the user is getting with each step-up in cores and RAM in Apple's M SOC. The benchmarks help, but, it just seems easier to grasp the discrete GPU gains in PC-land versus the M-class chips.
Thanks for the reference to the RTX 3060 estimation, that's a good approximation. Was interested in that, and also running local LLMs.
For reference, running a base model M2 Max Studio w/ 32GB RAM, I downloaded DSeek R1, 70b at 43GB. My first question in the terminal was to calculate the time to travel, in years, from Earth to Jupiter, assuming a velocity of 60 miles per hour. After a half hour, I had -- literally -- two words of an answer. Two words. So plainly the M2 Max base utterly and completely choked on 70 billion parameters. Had to control-Z that terminal.
But the M2 Max can locally run R1 32b (20GB) at a pretty good speed. It spits out answers to even complex questions with hardly any slowdown. I am so curious to know how an M4 Max at 128GB RAM will handle some of the bigger models. We'll have to wait for the tests. I hope some people here put their machines through the paces of the bigger LLMs.
Allen_Wentz
macrumors 601
And, frequently RAM rather than M2 versus M3 versus M4 may be limiting, but we really lack good real-world data. Very few folks will be able to compare an M4 Max/128 GB against an M3 Ultra/500 GB with identical LLM tasks. And even if one had two boxes side-by-side the nature of Ai is such that comparing Apples to Apples will seldom if ever be the case.