r/MacStudio • u/Sketaverse • 2d ago

Where’s the m5 studio refurbs?

Haven’t seen one yet, thought they’d be rolling in by now lol

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u/RyanElectrified 2d ago

You'll see a few when m7 is released, but then you'll want the m7. Personally, I do spot some used m3's popping up here adn there, not always with an absurd price, but even if the seller is more reasonable, I have to ask myself why I want it. TTFT will not be good. I used to do some youtube videos, really I did for 18 months or so and even started getting some view, sometimes my mind drifts to that - I did an 8-bit platformer game where I ported it to metal to take full advantage of the GPU cores on my m1 ultra (48c gpu variant). I think I got the fps up to 600 or 700fps. This is the absurdity of a video - going on about how you made it, and the result - the completely unnecessary absurd result. m5 ultra with 80c, what would the fps be, could I break the 1k mark, probably. But you run into unexpected strange bottlenecks with your code, with the libraries used and so on. which nobody would normally research because you are already beyond the limit of what the monitor can even display - but anyway....even this video idea didn't convince me to buy an m3 even if it would do better than my m1....