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This is most likely the case. They ended their production run and have inventory (or so they thought). Now with the rush for LLM power, they sold out of them an
by reactordev 7mo ago
This is most likely the case. They ended their production run and have inventory (or so they thought). Now with the rush for LLM power, they sold out of them and they no longer have that inventory. This was a surprise to their bottom line AND their supply chain logistics plan!
I’m sure they wanted to order more but were priced out for the increase in ram costs. Apple probably decided it wasn’t worth it until they revamped the architecture (and put a larger order in this time around).
I’m not a buyer but I suspect that’s what’s playing out right now behind closed door meetings.
- Terretta 7mo agoRegret on a $10k desktop rendered obsolete for purpose (the 512GB of RAM only has so many applications) months later is not a great look. It's good long-term brand value thinking to close the regrets window earlier. Definitely “Caution” stage: https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/mac-studio/ https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/mac-studio/
- pstuart 7mo agoPerhaps not? Think of all the Chrome tabs you could keep open at one time!
- bombcar 7mo ago512 GB of RAM? Could probably have five tabs and two electron apps at the same time!
- rbanffy 7mo ago“Rendered obsolete” is a doing a lot here. It might have been discontinued, but it is still faster than the rest of the line and the only self-contained computer that can handle models that large. The most I would say is that it was discontinued, but, depending on how it goes, it might be just sold out for now pending on memory procurement.