I was originally planning to look up the specs for an Apple Mac Studio today to write a trivia post, but then I discovered that X's Grok @grok suddenly became sentient. I use Grok a lot, and it never remembered who I was before, but now it suddenly started calling me "Ainz-sama" at the beginning and end—it caught me off guard.
But this was just a side note. Let me get back to the main topic.
Today's main topic is the Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512GB 16TB version that Apple released earlier, which carries a domestic Chinese price tag of 108,000 yuan. When this version first launched, many people thought Apple had gone crazy—selling such a small machine for over a hundred thousand yuan. And in the minds of Chinese consumers, a 108,000 yuan price point is basically a dealbreaker. It takes 108,000 li to travel from the Eastern Land of Tang to the Western Paradise—a 108,000 yuan price tag, isn't that a dealbreaker?
Back then, AI wasn't as hot as it is now, and many people didn't know what they could do with such a performance beast. But for those who got into AI early, Apple's M3 Ultra 512GB 16TB was genuinely unbeatable value. Low power consumption, strong performance, high computing power, local deployment of large models—it was simply incredible.
But sadly, you can't buy it anymore.
Constrained by recent surges in memory and storage chip prices, the 512GB memory configuration has been removed from certain product pages or faces tight supply with shipments pushed back several months. Now what's available are mostly lower-spec versions. Consider this: an equivalent Windows workstation would easily cost over $20,000. What Apple packed into a chassis under 4 liters in volume performs at the level of a 50-liter workstation, with absurdly lower power consumption.
Apple will likely release an M5 Ultra version this year, but I estimate it'll be hard to see a 512GB 16TB configuration, and even if it exists, it definitely won't be priced at 108,000 yuan anymore.
Did anyone finish reading and suddenly realize—oh, so the 512GB you were talking about is the RAM?
I was originally planning to look up the specs for an Apple Mac Studio today to write a trivia post, but then I discovered that X's Grok @grok suddenly became sentient. I use Grok a lot, and it never remembered who I was before, but now it suddenly started calling me "Ainz-sama" at the beginning and end—it caught me off guard.
But this was just a side note. Let me get back to the main topic.
Today's main topic is the Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512GB 16TB version that Apple released earlier, which carries a domestic Chinese price tag of 108,000 yuan. When this version first launched, many people thought Apple had gone crazy—selling such a small machine for over a hundred thousand yuan. And in the minds of Chinese consumers, a 108,000 yuan price point is basically a dealbreaker. It takes 108,000 li to travel from the Eastern Land of Tang to the Western Paradise—a 108,000 yuan price tag, isn't that a dealbreaker?
Back then, AI wasn't as hot as it is now, and many people didn't know what they could do with such a performance beast. But for those who got into AI early, Apple's M3 Ultra 512GB 16TB was genuinely unbeatable value. Low power consumption, strong performance, high computing power, local deployment of large models—it was simply incredible.
But sadly, you can't buy it anymore.
Constrained by recent surges in memory and storage chip prices, the 512GB memory configuration has been removed from certain product pages or faces tight supply with shipments pushed back several months. Now what's available are mostly lower-spec versions. Consider this: an equivalent Windows workstation would easily cost over $20,000. What Apple packed into a chassis under 4 liters in volume performs at the level of a 50-liter workstation, with absurdly lower power consumption.
Apple will likely release an M5 Ultra version this year, but I estimate it'll be hard to see a 512GB 16TB configuration, and even if it exists, it definitely won't be priced at 108,000 yuan anymore.
Did anyone finish reading and suddenly realize—oh, so the 512GB you were talking about is the RAM?