A 512GB Mac Studio is cheap: 90s SGI seats cost $100k in 1990s dollars
dreamwieber · x · 2026-10-30
Quoting a post noting that people outraged by the 512GB Mac Studio's price forget an Nvidia B200 with only 192GB costs far more, the author adds historical perspective: an SGI workstation plus software cost $100k per seat in 1990s dollars, while today a Mac Studio runs powerful AI models locally for a fraction of that.
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