512gb of unified memory is insane. The price will be outrageous but for AI enthusiasts it will probably be worth it.
taking Apple prices to a new extreme
Apple reveals M3 Ultra, taking Apple silicon to a new extreme
Submitted 20 hours ago by simple@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/apple-reveals-m3-ultra-taking-apple-silicon-to-a-new-extreme/
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ceiphas@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
rdri@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
can be configured up to 512GB, or over half a terabyte.
Are you ok mate?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
They’re not wrong. 1000 GB is a terabyte, so 512 GB is over half a terabyte.
It’s exactly half a tebibyte though.
lengau@midwest.social 3 hours ago
512 GiB is half a tebibyte. 512 GB is just under 477 GiB.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
That’s a retcon of hardware producers using measurement units confusion to advertise less as more.
It’s nice to have consistent units naming, but when the industry has existed for a long enough time with the old ones, seems intentional harm for profit.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 9 hours ago
Isn’t unified memory terrible for AI tho? I kind of doubt it even has bandwidth of a 5 years old vram.
KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
While DDR7 DRAM is obviously better, the massive amount of memory can be a massive advantage for some models.
JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Well this news means there will be cheaper second hand machines on the market.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 hour ago
Unfortunately that market is already flooded with functionally-useless 8GB machines.
jdeath@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
my college buddy and startup cofounder had a pathetically slow old laptop. he asks me the other day, “should i buy an ipad pro?” i was dumbfounded. bro you don’t even have a proper computer. we went around a bunch and he kept trying to get really bad ones like a base model mac mini. finally i persuaded him to get a 16" M1 Pro for a grand (about 700 after his trade in) and he couldn’t be happier.
I’m still using my M1 MBP like 4 years later. Don’t even care to upgrade! these things are great value
Cpo@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
M2 user here. It is wonderful. You cannot get it to even heat up.
Jrockwar@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
I thought a few days ago that my “new” laptop (M2 Pro MBP) is now almost 2 years old. The damn thing still feels new.
I really dislike Apple but the Apple Silicon processors are so worth it to me. The performance-battery life combination is ridiculously good.
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
Honestly, the base level M1 mini is still one hell of a computer. I’m typing this on one right now, complete with only 8gb RAM, and it hasn’t yet felt in any way underpowered.
Encoded some flac files to m4a with XLD this morning. 16 files totalling 450mb; it took 10 seconds to complete. With my work flows I can’t imagine needing much more power than that.
Cypher@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yes, that’s how computers parts work. Like all other depreciating assets.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Ultra brings memories, but Sun was better than Apple.
Though having said that, Sun was kinda greedy too and their hardware was about the same degree of proprietary as Apple’s.
Aesthetically Sun was amazing, though, and Apple is tasteless, aimed at plebes (technically Julius Caesar was from a plebe noble family, but nobody thinks in such nuance or that plebe noble family is a thing).
alekwithak@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
That extreme’s name? Albert Einstein.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 17 hours ago
Is memory that small, connected externally, or does that SoC just end up in a large package, whith that much RAM on it?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
It’s just external and soldered to the motherboard on Macs, no?
brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
Weird that my mind just read that as MKUltra.
Maybe appropriate for AI.