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by spacedcowboy14 hours ago |
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upvoteby wolfhumble13 hours ago|
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Just out of curiosity, where do you think is the best place to sell a machine like that with the lowest risk of being scammed, while still getting the best possible price?

Wish you a speedy recovery for your back!

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upvoteby spacedcowboy12 hours ago|
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> Just out of curiosity, where do you think is the best place to sell a machine like that with the lowest risk of being scammed, while still getting the best possible price?

There are none currently on eBay.co.uk, so I'm going to try there. I'll also try some of the reddit UK-specific groups.

As far as not being scammed - it's a really high value one-off sale, so it'll either be local pickup (and cash / bank-transfer at the time, which happens in seconds in the UK) or escrow.com (for non-eBay) with the buyer paying all the fees etc.

I'd prefer local pickup because then I have the money, the buyer can see it working, verify everything to their satisfaction etc. etc.

> Wish you a speedy recovery for your back!

Thank you :) It is a little better today. Sitting down is now tolerable for short periods... :)

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upvoteby Imustaskforhelp11 hours ago|
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doesn't escrow.com charge a 50$/pound minimum fees.

I do know that Escrow.com is one of the most reputable escrow platforms, on a more personal note, I would love to know a escrow service where I can just sell the spare domains I have (I have got some .com/.net domains for 1$ back during a deal for a provider), is there any particular escrow service which might not charge a lot and I can get a few dollars from selling them as some of those domains aren't being used by me.

> Thank you :) It is a little better today. Sitting down is now tolerable for short periods... :)

I am wishing you speedy recovery as well. A cowboy gotta have a strong back :-)

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upvoteby spacedcowboy10 hours ago|
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According to the calculator, it’d be about £280 assuming the purchase cost was £11k. I think that’s probably an upper-bound on the sale-price, though I can see bids of $20k on eBay.com for the same model.

I sold a domain via escrow.com a long time ago now (20 years or so) but the buyer paid fees, so I don’t know what they charge for that. You could try the calculator they have though (https://www.escrow.com/fee-calculator)

And thanks for the good wishes :)

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upvoteby ricardobayes10 hours ago|
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Probably ebay
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upvoteby asimovDev13 hours ago|
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lowest is probably an apple trade in if available, but i can't imagine how bad of a price hit it will be.
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upvoteby spacedcowboy12 hours ago|
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I checked, it's terrible. They don't take into account the size of the RAM in the machine, so you get the base-model trade-in value (£1280). Yeah, no.
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upvoteby polshaw11 hours ago|
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sounds like 100% risk of getting scammed
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upvoteby nottorp8 hours ago|
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Hey didn't they drop the 512 Gb model?

https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/03/06/forget-512gb-ram-...

You may want to hold on to your M3 Ultra! There's no guarantee there will be a M5 Ultra with 512 Gb ram.

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upvoteby spacedcowboy8 hours ago|
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I don’t actually use the memory anywhere near as much as I thought I would. 256GB would be fine for me :)
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upvoteby nottorp8 hours ago|
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Heh, my main "heavy stuff" desktop only has 64GB.

But it feels really good to have more ram than you can think of a use for.

I have a faint memory of an interview ages ago with Knuth I think where he mentioned as an aside he was using a workstation with 3.2 Gb of storage and 4 Gb of ram :)

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upvoteby steve_adams_868 hours ago|
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Around the year 2001 I recall watching 3d studio Max R3 tutorials in which the teacher had an electric purple desktop which possessed an entire 4 gigs of ram. It blew my mind. My computer had 128mb and an ATI Rage 128 Pro.

I was young and dumb and never would have guessed I'd own a computer with 32gb of RAM that felt pitifully underpowered for today's tasks.

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upvoteby nottorp3 hours ago|
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Humm purple and 4 gigs of ram in 2001 sounds like SGI. But those purple SGIs ran Irix so no 3d studio.
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upvoteby steve_adams_863 hours ago|
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You're right! Crazy, that brings me back. I wonder why he showed it off. I wish I could find it. He probably wasn't using it for the tutorial at all, just nerding out and talking about how beefy computers handle rendering and complex geometry better.

I was constantly constrained by my computers back then. Trying to navigate complex scenes or model very detailed meshes could get soooo slow. But man I loved it so much.

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upvoteby nottorp2 hours ago|
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> I wonder why he showed it off.

Probably because it ran Maya. Which was a SGI product back then, not an Autodesk product yet.

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