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Agreed. I’m planning on selling my 512GB M3 Ultra Studio in the next week or so (I just wrenched my back so I’m on bed-rest for the next few days) with an eye t

Agreed. I’m planning on selling my 512GB M3 Ultra Studio in the next week or so (I just wrenched my back so I’m on bed-rest for the next few days) with an eye to funding the M5 Ultra Studio when it’s announced at WWDC. I can live without the RAM for a couple of months to get a good price for it, especially since Apple don’t sell that model (with the RAM) any more.

wolfhumble 7mo ago
Just out of curiosity, where do you think is the best place to sell a machine like that with the lowest risk of being scammed, while still getting the best possible price? Wish you a speedy recovery for your back!
- asimovDev 7mo ago
  lowest is probably an apple trade in if available, but i can't imagine how bad of a price hit it will be.
  - spacedcowboy 7mo ago
    I checked, it's terrible. They don't take into account the size of the RAM in the machine, so you get the base-model trade-in value (£1280). Yeah, no.
    - polshaw 7mo ago
      sounds like 100% risk of getting scammed
- spacedcowboy 7mo ago
  > Just out of curiosity, where do you think is the best place to sell a machine like that with the lowest risk of being scammed, while still getting the best possible price? There are none currently on eBay.co.uk, so I'm going to try there. I'll also try some of the reddit UK-specific groups. As far as not being scammed - it's a really high value one-off sale, so it'll either be local pickup (and cash / bank-transfer at the time, which happens in seconds in the UK) or escrow.com (for non-eBay) with the buyer paying all the fees etc. I'd prefer local pickup because then I have the money, the buyer can see it working, verify everything to their satisfaction etc. etc. > Wish you a speedy recovery for your back! Thank you :) It is a little better today. Sitting down is now tolerable for short periods... :)
  - Imustaskforhelp 7mo ago
    doesn't escrow.com charge a 50$/pound minimum fees. I do know that Escrow.com is one of the most reputable escrow platforms, on a more personal note, I would love to know a escrow service where I can just sell the spare domains I have (I have got some .com/.net domains for 1$ back during a deal for a provider), is there any particular escrow service which might not charge a lot and I can get a few dollars from selling them as some of those domains aren't being used by me. > Thank you :) It is a little better today. Sitting down is now tolerable for short periods... :) I am wishing you speedy recovery as well. A cowboy gotta have a strong back :-)
    - spacedcowboy 7mo ago
      According to the calculator, it’d be about £280 assuming the purchase cost was £11k. I think that’s probably an upper-bound on the sale-price, though I can see bids of $20k on eBay.com for the same model. I sold a domain via escrow.com a long time ago now (20 years or so) but the buyer paid fees, so I don’t know what they charge for that. You could try the calculator they have though (https://www.escrow.com/fee-calculator https://www.escrow.com/fee-calculator) And thanks for the good wishes :)
- ricardobayes 7mo ago
  Probably ebay
- TMWNN 7mo ago
  I sell Apple products on Craigslist. (I speak as an experienced third-party seller on Amazon/Walmart/eBay.)
nottorp 7mo ago
Hey didn't they drop the 512 Gb model? https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/03/06/forget-512gb-ram----apple-has-dropped-the-mac-studios-4000-upgrade https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/03/06/forget-512gb-ram-... You may want to hold on to your M3 Ultra! There's no guarantee there will be a M5 Ultra with 512 Gb ram.
- spacedcowboy 7mo ago
  I don’t actually use the memory anywhere near as much as I thought I would. 256GB would be fine for me :)
  - nottorp 7mo ago
    Heh, my main "heavy stuff" desktop only has 64GB. But it feels really good to have more ram than you can think of a use for. I have a faint memory of an interview ages ago with Knuth I think where he mentioned as an aside he was using a workstation with 3.2 Gb of storage and 4 Gb of ram :)
    - steve_adams_86 7mo ago
      Around the year 2001 I recall watching 3d studio Max R3 tutorials in which the teacher had an electric purple desktop which possessed an entire 4 gigs of ram. It blew my mind. My computer had 128mb and an ATI Rage 128 Pro. I was young and dumb and never would have guessed I'd own a computer with 32gb of RAM that felt pitifully underpowered for today's tasks.
      - nottorp 7mo ago
        Humm purple and 4 gigs of ram in 2001 sounds like SGI. But those purple SGIs ran Irix so no 3d studio.
        steve_adams_86 7mo ago
        You're right! Crazy, that brings me back. I wonder why he showed it off. I wish I could find it. He probably wasn't using it for the tutorial at all, just nerding out and talking about how beefy computers handle rendering and complex geometry better. I was constantly constrained by my computers back then. Trying to navigate complex scenes or model very detailed meshes could get soooo slow. But man I loved it so much.

wolfhumble 7mo ago

Just out of curiosity, where do you think is the best place to sell a machine like that with the lowest risk of being scammed, while still getting the best possible price? Wish you a speedy recovery for your back!

asimovDev 7mo ago
lowest is probably an apple trade in if available, but i can't imagine how bad of a price hit it will be.
- spacedcowboy 7mo ago
  I checked, it's terrible. They don't take into account the size of the RAM in the machine, so you get the base-model trade-in value (£1280). Yeah, no.
  - polshaw 7mo ago
    sounds like 100% risk of getting scammed
spacedcowboy 7mo ago
> Just out of curiosity, where do you think is the best place to sell a machine like that with the lowest risk of being scammed, while still getting the best possible price? There are none currently on eBay.co.uk, so I'm going to try there. I'll also try some of the reddit UK-specific groups. As far as not being scammed - it's a really high value one-off sale, so it'll either be local pickup (and cash / bank-transfer at the time, which happens in seconds in the UK) or escrow.com (for non-eBay) with the buyer paying all the fees etc. I'd prefer local pickup because then I have the money, the buyer can see it working, verify everything to their satisfaction etc. etc. > Wish you a speedy recovery for your back! Thank you :) It is a little better today. Sitting down is now tolerable for short periods... :)
- Imustaskforhelp 7mo ago
  doesn't escrow.com charge a 50$/pound minimum fees. I do know that Escrow.com is one of the most reputable escrow platforms, on a more personal note, I would love to know a escrow service where I can just sell the spare domains I have (I have got some .com/.net domains for 1$ back during a deal for a provider), is there any particular escrow service which might not charge a lot and I can get a few dollars from selling them as some of those domains aren't being used by me. > Thank you :) It is a little better today. Sitting down is now tolerable for short periods... :) I am wishing you speedy recovery as well. A cowboy gotta have a strong back :-)
  - spacedcowboy 7mo ago
    According to the calculator, it’d be about £280 assuming the purchase cost was £11k. I think that’s probably an upper-bound on the sale-price, though I can see bids of $20k on eBay.com for the same model. I sold a domain via escrow.com a long time ago now (20 years or so) but the buyer paid fees, so I don’t know what they charge for that. You could try the calculator they have though (https://www.escrow.com/fee-calculator https://www.escrow.com/fee-calculator) And thanks for the good wishes :)
ricardobayes 7mo ago
Probably ebay
TMWNN 7mo ago
I sell Apple products on Craigslist. (I speak as an experienced third-party seller on Amazon/Walmart/eBay.)

nottorp 7mo ago

Hey didn't they drop the 512 Gb model? https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/03/06/forget-512gb-ram----apple-has-dropped-the-mac-studios-4000-upgrade https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/03/06/forget-512gb-ram-... You may want to hold on to your M3 Ultra! There's no guarantee there will be a M5 Ultra with 512 Gb ram.

spacedcowboy 7mo ago
I don’t actually use the memory anywhere near as much as I thought I would. 256GB would be fine for me :)
- nottorp 7mo ago
  Heh, my main "heavy stuff" desktop only has 64GB. But it feels really good to have more ram than you can think of a use for. I have a faint memory of an interview ages ago with Knuth I think where he mentioned as an aside he was using a workstation with 3.2 Gb of storage and 4 Gb of ram :)
  - steve_adams_86 7mo ago
    Around the year 2001 I recall watching 3d studio Max R3 tutorials in which the teacher had an electric purple desktop which possessed an entire 4 gigs of ram. It blew my mind. My computer had 128mb and an ATI Rage 128 Pro. I was young and dumb and never would have guessed I'd own a computer with 32gb of RAM that felt pitifully underpowered for today's tasks.
    - nottorp 7mo ago
      Humm purple and 4 gigs of ram in 2001 sounds like SGI. But those purple SGIs ran Irix so no 3d studio.
      - steve_adams_86 7mo ago
        You're right! Crazy, that brings me back. I wonder why he showed it off. I wish I could find it. He probably wasn't using it for the tutorial at all, just nerding out and talking about how beefy computers handle rendering and complex geometry better. I was constantly constrained by my computers back then. Trying to navigate complex scenes or model very detailed meshes could get soooo slow. But man I loved it so much.