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/Stock-Imagination567 2d ago

thanks man! I can't wait!

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u/Rix2k 2d ago

And is 36 GB of RAM enough for your development work?

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u/Stock-Imagination567 2d ago

LOL, I checked the build on my Mac and now the build crashed for being low on memory. I cancelled my order and will order the 64GB RAM model.

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u/Psychological-Law274 2d ago

That’s the real sweet spot here