Apple’s M3 Ultra is here, and it’s so powerful that your current Mac is pretending not to hear the news. With 184 billion transistors, a 32-core CPU, and an 80-core GPU, it makes even the M1 Ultra look like it needs a nap. Apple says it’s 2.6x faster than the M1 Ultra—which is great if you need your render done before you even blink.
Oh, I hear you ask about the memory? It’s nothing much. It’s just a casual 512GB (!?) of unified RAM. That’s more than some companies’ entire IT departments. You could open every Adobe app at once, train an AI model, and still have room for 400 Chrome tabs (probably). Speaking of AI, this thing is built for it—Apple says it can run massive language models with 600 billion parameters. So, if your Mac starts writing its own resignation letter, don’t be too surprised.
Then, there’s Thunderbolt 5, which offers up to 120 Gb/s data transfer speeds. That means you can finally move that 4TB project file you’ve been avoiding, and it won’t feel like waiting for dial-up. Oh, and it supports eight Pro Display XDRs—you know, for the moments when six just aren’t enough.
The M3 Ultra-powered Mac Studio is coming soon, ready to make everything else feel ancient—until M4 gets the same extreme makeover. So, if your Mac suddenly starts making excuses about why it can’t keep up, well, now you know why.
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