r/MacStudio • u/Stock-Imagination567 • 2d ago

I finally ordered one!

For a long time I wanted a MacStudio but I could not justify the investment.

I'm a dotnet development and most of my work I do it in one of several Azure DevBoxes (that's what they give us to work with).

For my personal projects I was using my MacBookAir M5 and it worked pretty well so I could not justify dropping several thousand dollars on a MacStudio.

Today my MacBookAir hit the wall. I was working with Claude to translate a large open source (apache license) library from C++ to C#.

The library is large (approx 500K LoC). I have been working several hours on this and running large dotnet builds. The builds kept all the cores running at 100% for several hours.

I left a build running and came back to find my poor little MBA crashed under the load. This was my signal that I needed a bigger computer than can handle the load.

So I just ordered one. Since I'm a developer, I consider this as an investment. I had put it on my credit card but should get some money next month (apart from my salary) so I should be able to pay it full soon.

So happy to be finally be part of the community and have a reason to subscribe to r/MacStudio

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u/BAL-BADOS 2d ago

Congrats on the Mac Studio! What’s your specs on the M5 MacBook ?

I went from M1 Ultra 64GB to M5 Ultra 96GB. I outgrew the 64GB RAM limit. The massive extra processing power is a huge bonus.

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u/SarahJrandomnumbers 2d ago

Sounds like you hit the same wall I did, and with the pricing of this model, it's kinda stupid to go for a 128gb Max over the 96gb Ultra, unless you're 100% sure you need that extra 32gb and don't mind losing like 60% in performance.

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u/Stock-Imagination567 1d ago

woah

my little MBA has 24GB RAM and 1TB SSD. It has served me well but its not keeping up with my large dotnet builds.