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It would be incredibly ironic if, with Apple's relatively stable supply chain relative to the chaos of the RAM market these days (projected to last for years),
by btown 10mo ago
It would be incredibly ironic if, with Apple's relatively stable supply chain relative to the chaos of the RAM market these days (projected to last for years), Apple compute became known as a cost-effective way to build medium-sized clusters for inference.
- andy99 10mo agoIt’s gonna suck if all the good Macs get gobbled up by commercial users.
- mschuster91 10mo agoit's not like regular people can afford this kind of Apple machine anyway.
- teeray 10mo agoIt’s just depressing that the “PC in every home” era is being rapidly pulled out from under our feet by all these supply shocks.
- dghlsakjg 10mo agoHuh? Home PCs are as cheap as they’ve ever been. Adjusted for inflation the same can be said about “home use” Macs. The list price of an entry level MacBook Air has been pretty much the same for more than a decade. Adjust for inflation, and you get a MacBook air for less than half the real cost of the launch model that is massively better in every way. A blip in high end RAM prices has no bearing on affordable home computing. Look at the last year or two and the proliferation of cheap, moderately to highly speced mini desktops. I can get a Ryzen 7 system with 32gb of ddr5, and a 1tb drive delivered to my house before dinner tomorrow for $500 + tax. That’s not depressing, that’s amazing!
- behnamoh 10mo ago> Home PCs are as cheap as they’ve ever been. just the 5090 GPU costs +$3k, what are you even talking about
- pests 10mo agoA home PC has to have a SOTA gpu?
- morshu9001 10mo agoProbably upset that the high-end video game "hobby" costs more than it used to. Used to be $1-2K for the very best gaming GPU of the time.
- selfhoster11 10mo agoI mean, yes. Very much so. People should be upset about a relatively affordable hobby getting to this point.
- dghlsakjg 10mo ago“A computer in every home” (from the original post I was replying to) does not mean “A computer with the highest priced version of the highest priced optional accessory for computers in every home” I’m talking about the hundreds of affordable models that are perfectly suitable for everything up to and including AAA gaming. The existence of expensive, and very much optional, high end computer parts does not mean that affordable computers are not more incredible than ever. Just because cutting edge high end parts are out of reach to you, does not mean that perfectly usable computers are too, as I demonstrated with actual specs and prices in my post. That’s what I’m talking about.
- platevoltage 10mo agoMan you positively demolished that straw man. How much as a base model MacBook Air changed in price over the last 15 years? With inflation, it's gotten cheaper.
- Aurornis 10mo agoYou can get a Mac Mini for $600 with 16GB of RAM and it will be more powerful than the "PC in every home" people would need for any common software. The personal computing situation is great right now. RAM is temporarily more expensive, but it's definitely not ending any eras.
- m-s-y 10mo agoNot Apple’s ram.
- jeroenhd 10mo agoRAM prices have exploded enough that Apple's RAM is now no longer a bad deal. At least until their next price hikes. We're going back to the "consumer PCs have 8GB of RAM era" thanks to the AI bubble.
- RestartKernel 10mo agoFunny, considering Macbooks finally started shipping at 16 GB due to Apple Intelligence.
- icedchai 10mo agoOutside of YouTube influencers, I doubt many home users are buying a 512G RAM Mac Studio.
- FireBeyond 10mo agoI doubt many of them are, either. When the 2019 Mac Pro came out, it was "amazing" how many still photography YouTubers all got launch day deliveries of the same BTO Mac Pro, with exactly the same spec: 18 core CPU, 384GB memory, Vega II Duo GPU and an 8TB SSD. Or, more likely, Apple worked with them and made sure each of them had this Mac on launch day, while they waited for the model they actually ordered. Because they sure as hell didn't need an $18,000 computer for Lightroom.
- lukeh 10mo agoStill rocking a 2019 Mac Pro with 192GB RAM for audio work, because I need the slots and I can’t justify the expense of a new one. But I’m sure a M4 Mini is faster.
- NSUserDefaults 10mo agoHow crazy do you have to get with # of tracks or plugins before it starts to struggle? I was under the impression that most studios would be fine with an Intel Mac Mini + external storage.
- DrStartup 10mo agoI'm neither and have 2. 24/7 async inference against github issues. Free. (once you buy the macs that is)
- Waterluvian 10mo agoI wonder what the actual lifetime amortized cost will be.
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- teaearlgraycold 10mo agoIt already is depending on your needs.