alt Hacker NewsThe out-of-stock $6000 M3 Ultra Mac Studios with 800GB+ memory bandwidth are going for $24,000 on eBay, so yes definitely
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JumpCrisscross • today at 6:03 AM
Let me clarify, I think Apple could sell a device at the scale Apple sells at around the $10 to 25 thousand price point.
Like, take out the price sheets for the Apple Car. Then sell me an AI tower at those price points.
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moritzwarhier • today at 7:36 AM
Not the same issue, but makes me nostalgic for these simpler times:
I don’t think we should use current prices as landmarks for large scale demand. That Studio’s current prices is inflated because of a (presumably) short term supply crunch, not because the average user is willing to pay $24k for a home AI inference device.
It assumes that RAM remains supply constrained and that none of the existing RAM contracts are cut short.
But Meta and xAI putting A TON of AI compute onto the market. OpenAI and Anthropic are raising the costs of inference (by reducing how much inference users get via subscriptions). And we haven’t seen Oracle / CoreWeave struggle to pay their debts yet, but they will be selling assets once they get close to that point.