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apple quietly cut its priciest Mac's RAM by 81% — and it might still be the smarter local-AI buy

Apple's own memory shortage just raised Mac Studio prices and gutted its top RAM tier — here's whether it's still worth buying over a GPU PC for running models at home.

Lena Fischer · Aug 4 · 8 min

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A $1,000 used GPU ties the $9,499 Mac Studio at the benchmark everyone runs

On small-model generation they're within 5% of each other — measured. The real decision lives in what each machine physically can't do, and nobody selling either will tell you.

Lena Fischer · Jul 22 · 10 min