Rekall IncorporatedApple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
Announcements this week were mostly business as usual, but Apple isn’t immune.
CerebralHawksIt had half a terabyte of RAM, sand they’re not saying what it cost. It could also be that the demand for that model was so low, they wouldn’t list it anymore. If you needed that configuration, you could probably special order it.
No consumer needs more than 16/32GB of RAM on a Mac. Some gamers are pushing 64GB RAM, but I haven’t heard of anything but fringe benefits for doing so. The people who need 512GB of RAM are doing some high end video production — think like Pixar type applications. Making these extremely detailed models and rendering them in 4K for a movie. That kind of thing.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumbleThe Mac Studio isn’t aimed at normal consumers. It’s a Mac Pro without the expansion slots.
A case could be made for the base Studio for budding photographers, videographers, artists, and the like.
There’s a WIDE gulf between the base model with 16 or 32GB of RAM, and one with 512GB RAM.
Sure, but the Mac Pro has always been like that. There was a wide gulf between the 32gb base mac pro and the 1.5TB version too. They’ve always covered from high end amateur to high end pro.