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.
NotMyOldRedditName512gb of ram would let you run very good AI models, it was able to self run a very large deepseek for example. I believe they cost around 10k? It would cost a lot more than anything else out there to run a full deepseek or similarly sized models.
The problem is they can’t run inference on models, but they aren’t great for training them.
Apple keeps improving the memory bandwidth speed though and future generations might be good at training as well assuming their Metal software keeps improving, which isn’t as good as CUDA.