Mac Studio With Massive 512GB RAM Facing Two-Week Delivery Delay

[MacRumors]

Money can buy an ultra-fast Mac, but it cannot buy ultra-fast delivery, apparently.

Apple's new Mac Studio with M4 Max and M3 Ultra chip options began arriving to customers today, but the highest-end model is facing delays.

If you order a maxed-out Mac Studio with a 32-core M3 Ultra chip, 512GB of unified RAM, and 16TB of SSD storage on Apple's online store today, the mind-boggling $14,099 configuration will not arrive until late March. Unsurprisingly, it is the massive 512GB of RAM upgrade option that seems to be causing the longer wait here.

If ordered today, that configuration is estimated for delivery between March 26 and March 31, so there is currently a two- to three-week wait.

Thanks, Paul!

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[pksv]

"Told you so" (posted week ago).
There is nothing similar on the market, this is trully unique Apple proposition.

 

[HouseLannister]

If you have $14k to buy a computer, I am sure you can have some fun doing donuts in your Lambo or something until it arrives.

 

[QCassidy352]

Oh darn, guess I’ll have to be patient.

 

[ruslan120]

For all the seconds a new computer would save, how long does waiting two weeks add?

 

[Biro]

I strongly suspect that Apple will be building this particular and ultimate Mac Studio configuration to order. That would easily explain a delivery delay of two weeks or so.

 

[lkrupp]

If you have $14k to buy a computer, I am sure you can have some fun doing donuts in your Lambo or something until it arrives.

You clearly don’t understand who this beast was designed for. It is not for some Richie Rich to play with. It’s for professionals who need such specs for their work flow. You know, like video editing professionals, scientists who need extreme number crunching power, AI and the like.

Why the snark when you are apparently clueless about the usefulness of such a machine?

 

[Quicksilver867]

Going out on a limb here and guessing these are in mega high demand "because LLM"

 

[ralph_sws]

This isn’t because of the popularity of this model, but rather because they have limited stock of these models. These configurations are sold in limited quantities, and Cook doesn’t want their warehouses to become cluttered.

 

[Rafagon]

Need to get Apple Intelligence on the case.

Then it'll ship faster.

 

[Spanky Deluxe]

Going out on a limb here and guessing these are in mega high demand "because LLM"

Yeah this. I'm waiting to see how benchmarks go before I consider buying though.

 

[Smartuser]

Oh wow, BTO configurations taking longer, Film at 11. They’ve taken a month longer sometimes.

 

[vegetassj4]

That's nothing. After finding out about M3 Ultra, it has an infinite delay for my address.

 

[pksv]

If you have $14k to buy a computer, I am sure you can have some fun doing donuts in your Lambo or something until it arrives.

OR, hear me out, someone is actually making MONEY with his computer so he buys it on credit or pays for it as a business expense with business savings. I know, absolutely wild idea 😁

 

[WestonHarvey1]

You clearly don’t understand who this beast was designed for. It is not for some Richie Rich to play with. It’s for professionals who need such specs for their work flow. You know, like video editing professionals, scientists who need extreme number crunching power, AI and the like.

Why the snark when you are apparently clueless about the usefulness of such a machine?

I always look for this reply. Did not disappoint.

 

[pksv]

This isn’t because of the popularity of this model, but rather because they have limited stock of these models. These configurations are sold in limited quantities, and Cook doesn’t want their warehouses to become cluttered.

You don't know that and what is the balance of supply and demand.

 

[bcomer]

If you have $14k to buy a computer, I am sure you can have some fun doing donuts in your Lambo or something until it arrives.

Over $20k CDN

 

[ThaRuler]

Is 512GB of ram enough to make Apple Intelligence work properly?

 

[Aeronauts]

I was planning to buy my first Mac Studio but I don’t want to spend all that money on 3 year old Apple displays to go with it.

If you’re an existing user it probably doesn’t make any difference but time and again Tim Cook seems to completely forget about new users who need a complete package not half now and the other half in a year. I will be very happy when Cook is gone.

 

[Jashar7]

You clearly don’t understand who this beast was designed for. It is not for some Richie Rich to play with. It’s for professionals who need such specs for their work flow. You know, like video editing professionals, scientists who need extreme number crunching power, AI and the like.

Why the snark when you are apparently clueless about the usefulness of such a machine?

Yeah surely the “professionals” will pay $4,600 for 16TB storage they are that clueless… Apple is living in a fantasy land 4K for 16TB is insane

 

[jlc1978]

You don't know that and what is the balance of supply and demand.

It does make sense, from a financial perspective, to have a delay rather than have extra stock of expensive BTO models sitting on shelves.

 

[TheGoblin]

A two week delay isn't so bad for this configuration. I would have loved to have this machine when I was working with in-memory databases. My workstation was huge and extremely loud when all the cores were in use.

A Mac Studio is a dream in comparison.

 

[ThailandToo]

You clearly don’t understand who this beast was designed for. It is not for some Richie Rich to play with. It’s for professionals who need such specs for their work flow. You know, like video editing professionals, scientists who need extreme number crunching power, AI and the like.

Why the snark when you are apparently clueless about the usefulness of such a machine?

I agree. The RAM configuration for just $10k is a bargain especially for AI workflows or any of the scientific data crunching or video.

 

[Aeronauts]

This isn’t because of the popularity of this model, but rather because they have limited stock of these models. These configurations are sold in limited quantities, and Cook doesn’t want their warehouses to become cluttered.

I would think the high end options are built to order rather than sitting in a warehouse.

 

[ThailandToo]

I was planning to buy my first Mac Studio but I don’t want to spend all that money on 3 year old Apple displays to go with it.

If you’re an existing user it probably doesn’t make any difference but time and again Tim Cook seems to completely forget about new users who need a complete package not half now and the other half in a year. I will be very happy when Cook is gone.

I think Apple is done being the massive cash cow it has been. Tim has driven innovation into the ground. He has no clue about what can be done. He doesn’t understand the products but he’s good for shareholders. The problem is like all CEOs they focus on the now as that’s what keeps them in power. I feel like the long term for Apple needs a visionary product person not another bean counter.