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Costco Members: Apple Mac Studio Desktop: M1 Max Chip, 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD (2022) Expired

$1500
$1,949.00
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Costco Wholesale has for their Members: New Mac Studio Desktop: Apple M1 Max Chip (MJMV3LL/A) on sale for $1499.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member ptlgator for sharing this deal.

Note: You need to be an active Costco Member and signed in to your account to purchase at sale price, otherwise non-members may purchase but are subject to a 5% surcharge.

Specs:
  • Apple M1 Max Chip
    • 10-core CPU with 8 performance cores and 2 efficiency cores
    • 24-core GPU
    • 16-core Neural Engine
    • 400GB/s memory bandwidth
  • 32GB RAM (Unified Memory)
  • 512GB Solid State Drive
  • Built-in speaker
  • Bluetooth 5.0
  • Wi-Fi (802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 wireless networking) (IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac compatible)
  • macOS Monterey
  • Ports:
    • 3.5 mm headphone jack
    • HDMI port (supports multichannel audio output)
    • 4x Thunderbolt 4 (up to 40Gb/s)
    • 2x USB-A
    • 10Gb Ethernet
    • 2x USB-C Ports (Front)
    • SDXC Card Slot (UHS-II)
  • 7.7-inch-square, 3.7-inch-tall design in silver
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Apple M1 Max chip for a giant leap in CPU, GPU, and machine learning performance
10-core CPU
24-core GPU
32GB of unified memory makes everything you do fast and fluid
Fast Wi-Fi 6 wireless connectivity
Four Thunderbolt 4 ports, two USB-A ports, HDMI port, 10Gb Ethernet port, SDXC card slot, 3.5 mm audio jack
macOS Monterey lets you connect, share, and create like never before, with exciting FaceTime updates and a redesigned Safari
Remarkably compact 7.7-inch-square, 3.7-inch-tall design in silver

https://www.costco.com/mac-studio...48103.html
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I'd say it has less to do with the title of the dev and more with the type of work.

So for example a front end web developer isn't going to see much difference between an M1 Pro/Max and a regular M2. Most of their workload is dependent on single-threaded performance, which the M2 is better at. The exception here is if they're routinely running a bunch of VMs simultaneously for e.g. compatibility testing.

Backend devs might be better off with an M1 Pro/Max depending on the language they primarily work in… some languages and associated toolchains are much better at utilizing multiple cores than others. They're likely to need a lot of RAM though because e.g. running a lot of Docker containers (which are VMs under the hood) is memory intensive.

The group that most unambiguously benefits from an M1 Pro/Max are developers working on native desktop or mobile apps… these devs are mostly writing languages like C, C++, Rust, and Swift which all have well-multithreaded toolchains which will see dramatic speedups in even incremental compiles with more cores in the mix.
Great deal but I hate that these only include a 512 GB drive. All that power but limited storage.
Bought this and not the M2 Pro because I don't believe 16GB of RAM is sufficient for the next ~5 years when its shared with GPU, and this is actually cheaper than an upgraded Mac Mini with 32GB.

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FaithfulMusic960
05-21-2023 at 10:53 AM.
05-21-2023 at 10:53 AM.
Quote from yrtz7OlI :
If youre not in a rush, the M3 chips are gonna def be a step fwd in performance (more than the M2 to M1 mild improvement). Hope you get a good computer deal that fits your workflow and budget!
CostCo has a 90 day return policy, and they generally don't ask questions. If they announce an M3 in the next 3 weeks, not a problem to return.
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05-21-2023 at 01:01 PM.
05-21-2023 at 01:01 PM.
Is this good for gaming for $1500?
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05-21-2023 at 01:56 PM.
05-21-2023 at 01:56 PM.
Quote from JasonR9389 :
External storage for data, internal for OS and a few things… very common configuration for Mac users vs a big ugly box full of PC crap. 😀
Putting in two m.2 slots and a bay for a 3.5" HDD would NOT make this a "big ugly box." Lol!

I get you guys like Apple for whatever reason, but do you hear yourselves?

And a bunch of drives and wires plugged haphazardly into external ports is what? Beautiful?

That's what I don't understand. Why go through all this trouble to make an aesthetic box... that is going to require you to immediately destroy the aesthetics in order to get any work done?

My 15" LAPTOP has multiple drive slots. LMAO
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05-22-2023 at 07:09 PM.
05-22-2023 at 07:09 PM.
Any mac with 25% off from the apple price is a good deal. That's the discount Apple offers to its employees.
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05-23-2023 at 12:33 AM.
05-23-2023 at 12:33 AM.
Quote from funkmasterta :
Is this good for gaming for $1500?

Apple and gaming do not belong in the same sentence
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05-23-2023 at 05:08 AM.
05-23-2023 at 05:08 AM.
Quote from kane057 :
Great deal but I hate that these only include a 512 GB drive. All that power but limited storage.

But it has a 10 Gb port so with a NAS this is great. Why pay $$$$$ for tons of extra apple priced storage
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