Pocster

Go big or don’t go in 😉

Of course not ! The m3 ultra 96gb will be the prototype!

Thing is @-rick- I was just playing with you a bit . Clearly demand will out strip supply for m5 ultra for sure I.e delivery times will slip like a dog . My intention is to order within minutes of it going live in the App Store . My ambitions probably do not need m5 with 256gb or more but it bugs me to buy “old” m3 ultra at near full whack when we all know new and similar priced is coming .

Oi (expletive deleted)ers ! This is my local llm thread ! Not political or supply issues . Get a (expletive deleted)ing room 👊🏻

M3 96gb arrived ! Now the work begins !!

They dropped the 512gb m3 because they couldn’t supply the bin in a sensible time frame due to ram shortages .They up’d price of ram increases also + of course Apple ram tax . With m5 I guess there might not be a 512gb option initially . Clearly Apple can weather it better than some suppliers but they are experiencing issues . Ram shortages are set to continue into 2027/28 . So Apple are suffering ram increase costs , ram shortage, high demand for high bin and a new version on route . So bit of a perfect storm tbh . https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/06/mac-mini-and-mac-studio-long-shipping-delays/ or as chat would say …. You may be right that Apple sold through the amount of high-memory M3 Ultras it planned to build. But that still doesn’t prove the wider memory shortage is irrelevant, and it definitely doesn’t prove Apple will offer M5 substitutions to people waiting on M3 orders. So at the moment the solid bit is just this: high-memory Apple SKUs are hard to get. The rest is theory. Honestly though, he sounds like one of those people who wants to win the mechanism, not discuss the outcome.

Source ? lol ! Apple website - try ordering one . Try getting one m3 / m4 from anywhere - high bin model . It’s true Apple uses a different packaging approach to normal server DIMMs, but that doesn’t make it magically immune to the wider memory supply problem. High-RAM M3 Ultra lead times are already very long, so clearly Apple is not unaffected. My point isn’t that Mac Studio uses identical RAM sticks to AI servers; it’s that the same broader supply chain pressure on high-capacity memory is still likely to hit Apple’s larger bins too. So yes, Apple’s implementation is different. No, that doesn’t prove the current delays are unrelated to the wider memory shortage.

Current delivery on high ram bins is 5 months + The ram shortage is effecting Apple now let alone before new hardware appears .

Global ram demand for hi bins ; nvidia etc . Not easy for Apple that’s sure . 96gb I’ll be ok with . Ram shortage set to continue until 2027 maybe 2028 until new production comes online . Can you all stop using chat and Claude please !

Gave up . M5 ultra who knows when ! Probably wwdc . But try ordering a 256gb m3 ultra now … delivery august! Ram delays crippling everything . So decided to buy a stop gap after a few failed attempts on eBay I.e paid ; then eBay refund as scam / issue . Found stock at believe it or not curry’s - but only the m3 ultra 96gb - so that arrives tomorrow.

Datable ?

Oops yes ! . wtf was I on . Anyway if anyone wants to build a machine to impregnate with an AI hybrid life form I’m more than up for that .

lol yeah I’ve watch his videos . But ! I’m not just using local llm to write code ; the house will be controlled via realtime local llm ! . Ever watched the film with Julie Andrews ? Not the sound of (expletive deleted)ing music !! Demon Seed …

I know ! I know ! But I’m planning a 5 yr project . The thing is I could go less say 128gb or 256gb but …. If that becomes a limitation I’m going to be real pissed . So I decided get something that in theory can’t be limited except by my ability rather than hardware .

Global ram shortages biting badly due to AI server rush . Decided go big or go home ( a man behind back of a pub said that to me once ) . 512gb got to be! ; if available . Roll on April 1st ( Apple 50th ) or wwdc ( early June )