Apple reveals M3 Ultra, taking Apple silicon to a new extreme
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Yup.
- 512 GB > 1TB/2 - what article claims
- 512 GiB = 1 TiB/2 - what many assume
- don't mix GiB and GB
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Agreed, I’d be entirely fine with legal enforcement of the ISO definitions in advertising, no need to air historical dirty laundry outside the profession
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M2 user here. It is wonderful. You cannot get it to even heat up.
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Correct. But that means 512 GB is not half a tebibyte.
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Ah, correct. RAM used GiB, so I guess I implicitly made the switch.
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Weird that my mind just read that as MKUltra.
Maybe appropriate for AI.
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Unfortunately that market is already flooded with functionally-useless 8GB machines.
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How is it a retcon? The use of giga- as a prefix for 10^9^ has been in use as part of the metric system since 1960. I don’t think anyone in the fledgeling computer industry was talking about giga- or mega- anything at that time. The use of mega- as a prefix for 10^6^ has been in use since 1873, over 60 years before Claude Shannon even came up with the concept of a digital computer.
if anything, the use of mega- and giga- to mean 1024 is a retcon over previous usage.
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No, the ram is integrated into the CPU.
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The storage prices are insane.
It's over 9 thousand to get the 512GB model, and it still only has 1TB of probably non removable internal storage.2TB is +$400
4TB is +$1000
8TB is +$2200
16TB + $4600They're saying 8TB is worth more than the entire base model Mac Studio at 2k.
For those prices I expect a RAID 5 or 6 system built in, god knows they have the processor for it.
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This type of thing is mostly used for inference with extremely large models, where a single GPU will have far too little VRAM to even load a model into memory. I doubt people are expecting this to perform particularly fast, they just want to get a model to run at all.
