Prompt processing on Macs is VERY slow...

Yeah, I bought a Thelio Major three years ago. I'm kicking myself for not going dual-4090s for a mere $10K back then.

Me three

I would rather take this option than a single H100:

> 96 GB Dual NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 w/ 1000W PSU (non-refundable) +$19,169

Though I don't think there's anything stopping you from trying to stuff an H100 into this machine if you want to BYO.

$42k and a toy CPU at that. Threadripper or EPIC if it must be AMD camp, although I'd rather it weren't (_always_ some random issues on linux). TBH, if I were buying workstation at such prices, I'd probably first take a look at what HP has (since their cooling and immunity to dust is unprecedented), and then probably BOXX and Puget. For DIY there's always supermicro at such levels.

  Graphics:
    (...)
    +$18,399 192 GB Dual NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 w/ 1000W + 750W PSUs (non-refundable) +$37,239
  Memory:
    (...)
    192 GB DDR5 3600 MHz (4x48) +$1,874 

yup, 87.8% of $42,412 is just two GPUs and a PSU. Even RAM is less than 5%.

I've noticed that some companies have flat out dropped the high memory configurations from their lineup that were offered just months ago at inflated prices. OnePlayerX had a 128GB Strix Halo tablet, RedMagic had a 24GB Android phone - both have been removed from their sites. It's a similar situation for the new Thinkpad lineup.

SSD too. The priced have tripled...

It would be great if China had more lithography machine....

So the two variants they offer is the Max-Q and the Server edition one, but only explicitly mentioned for one?

Edit: The Max-Q is one of the options, what's the other option then?

And you would buy it through your company so it won’t be quite as much net. Surely no one is buying these just for fun

There was a time when I sold my computer and bought a motorcycle.

Can honestly say that was one of the best trades I’ve ever done. I didn’t buy another computer for 3 more years.

Aye but at $45k you’re so deep already is that really worth the savings? It’s so much easier to manage a single system, and the performance will be in absolute terms better.

Truly, I get your point, but $45k is obscene for a workstation (because of the RAM shortage). I can’t fathom it being a reasonable decision[1] unless you’re able to churn an immense profit from it. And… if you can, it’s an expense that saves time, energy, and effort. If it is only profitable when $8k in price difference makes it viable, is that really worth the effort? An $8k increase making a difference, when you’re wholly dependent on the frontier (or near frontier) lab not releasing a model that makes your work(station) irrelevant— seems reckless. Couple that with the doubling of DeepSeek’s parameters for their flash model… and well the math just don’t math for my naive brain.

[1] I’m absolutely incapable of spending that much on a workstation so my opinions may be irrelevant… but I cannot understand the “stepping over quarters to save a penny” mentality[2].

[2] I could be missing the forest for the trees. As a result, I’d love to know how I am being shortsighted. I just can’t fathom a situation where an $8k surcharge in system RAM doesn’t make sense. It’s not about system RAM, it’s about GPU RAM, margins, and useful lifetime of the system.

At that price, it's competing against a cluster of M5 Mac Studios, which we don't have test data for yet.

Can't it be both?

EG As I gazed at Janice, joy with equal part contentment washed through my soul.

How did I miss that? I was still sleeping I guess

For me the operating system (and ecosystem in general) is one of the biggest reasons I use a Mac, but the unified memory pool is a benefit too. I am still distraught about the gaming situation though.

I wonder why Apple has not really pushed their memory bandwidth numbers. They're starting to catch up to 2020 at this point -- cool, but still struggling to run years-old models. (FLOPS is even further behind by a year or two)

Maybe they're waiting on HBM? Given that they're skipping M6 Max to go straight for M7, I'd assume they're doing a redesign for it.