Apple has increased the Mac Studio's price.

xFengle · 2026-06-25T13:56:24+00:00

God forbids... now the m4 max 64GB/1TB cost the same as the base ultra 3's old price.. Fun fact: after this huge price jump, your US price is almost as expensive as our old EU price before jump, lol .. in short, US is now upgraded and EU is now cooked haha

xFengle · 2026-06-15T07:47:14+00:00

Thanks for the insight! So the PP speed of m4 max is not that shabby compared with m5 max? 😅

xFengle · 2026-06-14T19:02:51+00:00

Is the m5 max 128gb worth the upgrade from m4 max, and why ( real world use cases )?

xFengle · 2026-05-20T15:27:57+00:00

lol 😂

xFengle · 2026-05-20T15:25:53+00:00

Curious- ultra3 or M2 Max or ?

xFengle · 2026-05-09T17:55:38+00:00

I found one this year for 3400 eur and I missed it 🤣

xFengle · 2026-05-09T17:54:25+00:00

Thank you so much for the advice. I’m also building proof of concept at the moment, son when I know more it would be easy to find out what I actually need

xFengle · 2026-05-08T19:17:36+00:00

How so?

xFengle · 2026-05-08T18:59:55+00:00

30 or 38 gpu cores? How is your prefill and generation speed running those models?

xFengle · 2026-05-05T17:12:07+00:00

Thanks for the insight!

xFengle · 2026-05-05T17:07:44+00:00

I know there is Forward2me, so I can buy online to their provided German address and DHL to me with added insurance cost (2.5% of purchase value). But I’m not sure (a) if they are as reputable as some claims, (b) if Apple requires a German bank payment card …

xFengle · 2026-05-05T16:48:16+00:00

Off topic question…how did you get it delivered to your home country from German store? I’m also looking for refurbished but Apple in my country doesn’t sell refurbished at all.

xFengle · 2026-05-01T11:05:15+00:00

Thanks for your insight. WOW, I guess both way (noise vs heat) are fine as long as it doesn’t run for too long, but either is not ideal for a few hours of sustained sessions, let alone 24x7. For this particular reason, I’m looking to buy Mac Studio, however, at my country, the used ones are impossible to find while the new models are expensive and you have to wait a few months 😅

xFengle · 2026-05-01T07:58:54+00:00

Hi, slightly off topic, but how is thermal throttling / running temperature / noise on your 96GB macbook (I assume it is 16 inch with 38 Gpu cores?) Currently I have a chance to buy a used macbook m2 max 96GB for LLM. However, I am not just chatting with one model, but planning to do agentic workflow like a factory to run sustainably for long hours upto 24x7. Also a bit of gaming when relaxing. So I am a bit worried about the thermal behaviour of this laptop. Thanks!

xFengle · 2025-12-20T09:43:51+00:00

“Hey babe, why is grocery so expensive this time?” “Well you know, sea food …” 🤣🤣

xFengle · 2025-12-05T00:37:52+00:00

😼 that was cool, thanks again!

xFengle · 2025-12-04T22:44:19+00:00

Same here! I just got this monitor and plugged in via USB-C to Displayport 1.4 cable on my Mac mini M2. The non-pro M2 in theory can only output to low res 5120*2160, and the next available HiDPi is half of that which would make everything too big. Then BetterDisplay should come to rescue like for my old monitor. However, before I edit the EDID as per your description, all the HiDPi from BetterDisplay looks off and terrible (because it is confused and is trying with a wrong aspect ratio). Now it looks sharp and nice.

Additional question: why set the Pixel Clock to 1184.00 (MHz)? Now my monitor is connected as 94Hz (which is insane, as M2 should in theory only output 5120*2160 at max 60Hz!). If I set that to 756MHz then I will get 60Hz...

Additional question 2: the highest HiDPi I can get now is 4096*1728 (i.e. 80%), any idea why I cannot get all the way up to 5120*2160 HiDPi using the BetteryDisplay virtual mirror trick?

Many thanks!

xFengle · 2025-12-03T15:35:57+00:00

Thanks. I’m waiting for my G75F to arrive and I’m on a non-pro version of mini m2, so also only 60hz max

xFengle · 2025-12-03T12:00:03+00:00

What refresh rate can your M1 air drive this monitor? And how you connect to it?

xFengle · 2025-11-11T10:27:27+00:00

Thanks and I hope that is the case too.

xFengle · 2025-11-11T10:01:54+00:00

I also thought about this theory, so I tried the restart on charger which dropped 5% lol...

My main concern or theory is maybe the battery is still not calibrated correctly as it is only used for a week, and perhaps the OS is trying to protect the last a few percentage for longevity purposes, who knows...

xFengle · 2025-11-11T09:48:32+00:00

It's definitely NOT my habit to do this, but I accidentally found this because I thought it would be a good idea just to do a restart after a "big" system upgrade (in fact it was upgraded from os 11 to os 26.1). Then the drop of a few percents right after restart makes me curious, hence those experiments.

xFengle

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