And cheapest Mac Studio with M1 ultra is A$6000 so yes....

20-Core CPU 48-Core GPU 32-Core Neural Engine

    64GB unified memory
    1TB SSD storage¹
    Front: Two Thunderbolt 4 ports, one SDXC card slot
    Back: Four Thunderbolt 4 ports, two USB-A ports, one HDMI port, one 10Gb Ethernet port, one 3.5-mm headphone jack

A$6,099.00

Here in UK it's not a big deal. Subscribe to discord alerts for FE series drops, last 3090FE drop in February the cards were in stock for a full day, at RRP(£1399). I got a 3080 drop at RRP this way too(£649).

But even ignoring the FE series, the prices have already crashed massively, you can get a 3080 AIB for less than £1000, and 3090s frequently appear around £1500-1600.

I can right now (ok, in the morning actually) walk into a computer store across the road here and buy 3090 off the shelf for 2299..2499€ (different makes and models). Those are in stock and physically on the shelf. Same for lesser cards of same series or AMD RX6000.

Those are scalper prices. Anyone can get a 3090 tomorrow for that price.

Yeah, they can fuck right off with those prices. Ethereum’s proof of stake switch can’t come too soon.

I'm seeing 3080s, in stock in stores I might consider buying from, sub-1800 AUD. It is heading back towards RRP (still about 50% over I guess). 3090s are twice that, yep.

Don't know about Australia but in my area(Asia) the prices are now going back near MSRP.

I bought two on ebay no problem

We've been buying tons of 3090s at work for about 1.6 USD- 2k USD without to much trouble

> tons

Hey, at 5lbs each a ton is only 400 cards!