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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by rbanffy on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @01:11PM (#43270137)
We finally encountered the situation where an Apple computer is cheaper than its competition ;-)

All joking aside, I don't think Apples are that expensive compared to similar high-end gear. I don't think there is any other compact desktop computer with half a terabyte of RAM accessible to the GPU.

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by kridsdale1 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @02:43PM (#43271312)
And yet all that cash still just goes to TSMC
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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by rbanffy on Thursday March 06, 2025 @06:03AM (#43278731)
They are selling the shovels for this gold rush. Also, ASML, who sells machines to make shovels.
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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by nightski on Thursday March 06, 2025 @12:51AM (#43276836)
I mean expensive relative to who, Nvidia? Both are enjoying little to no competition in their respective niche and are using that monopoly power to extract massive margins. I have no doubt it could be much cheaper if there was actual competition in the market.

Fortunately it seems like AMD is finally catching on and working towards producing a viable competitor to the M series chips.

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