Comment by nsagent
11 hours ago
Bought it without looking too closely to make sure I got in before the rush (comes Nov 25-Dec 3 before my M5 Ultra 256GB which is supposedly shipping end of January).
After taking a look the $11.5k premium over the 256GB might not be worth it. Gonna have to mull over the decision and possibly buy two 256GB machines instead (which might be the smarter option).
As someone also considering getting one, what would make it worth it in your opinion?
The fact that I can get this in my hands up to two months earlier than the 256GB version (Nov 25-Dec 3 vs Jan 15-29) is a major factor.
Wish I had your economy for sure.
It's for my startup. I wouldn't have bought it otherwise.
I saw "512GB" and knew deep down it means RAM, but SURELY nobody needs the same amount of RAM as I have total SSD space on my desktop, right?
...Right?
This is crazy to me as well: half a terabyte (!) of RAM?! How is that even possible lol (I know this is possible, but seems totally overkill, even though I know LLMs eat RAM for breakfast)
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These are very well-suited for running local AI models, which must be held in memory, and are very large.
Nobody is buying these to write Word docs and play MP3s.
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