Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory

I thought it was a pricing mistake. But no, you just have to select the variations. $42,412.00

Seems they might be selling a combo of dual RTX Pro 6000 workstation cards (non-refundable), but the setup they have, unless they change how the GPUs cooling work, isn't gonna work out thermally if you stack two of those workstation cards on top of each other. But it doesn't say WS or "Workstation", so I suppose could be the server variant too? But also doesn't say...

Hope they have good overall cooling the case, cooling doesn't seem to be mentioned, it'll be a noisy little machine no doubt :)

It only costs $40,000.

This makes Mac Studio with 256GB memory look cheap in comparison. More memory to store weight at a quarter of the price!

New car or a Thelio. Tough decision.

Anyone know why they chose a consumer grade CPU on this? I’m a little surprised to see a 9950X as the top option. There’s not enough PCIe lanes available to run everything without bifurcation. I imagine the GPUs probably aren’t too bothered generally… but the NVMe drives are likely to slow down as a result.

A Threadripper ain’t cheap, but if you’re spending $45k on a workstation it seems like a weird place to skimp. Not to mention you’d then have the option of shoveling a few more 6000 pros in it when you want to run something larger (assuming your home/office electrical box can support it).

I remember losing sleep when I bought my RTX Pro 6000, but somehow they keep going up in price, and waddya know I’ve even done real work that appreciates the VRAM size.

How is this interesting compared to either a Mac Studio or Nvidia Spark? Did I miss something?

What motherboard do they use? (Or do they design their own now?)

Haha, bloody hell, mate. $17k a pop? I bought these for $8k-ish. That's bonkers to buy this when newer flash models won't fit on this any more. DeepSeek V4 Flash seems the last in its line, and then you have to count on Qwen Next. Seems like a waste honestly.

Is it more powerful than Apple silicon, or why would anyone buy this? Just for Linux?

Oh, it's System76, that's why. Open hardware. Makes sense.

Edit: Also Nvidia

wouldnt you be better off maxing out the new Mac hardware? the memory bandwidth is insane on those jobbies