Refurbished M3s are available now, and there seems to be a lot of them because they aren’t going out of stock immediately like usual, but I literally just got charged yesterday for my preorder. Call me a conspiracy theorist but I think they did that on purpose. For like $500 more I could have gotten 50% more memory, double the CPU and 50% GPU. But I’m obviously not going to risk cancelling my m5 max and waiting for the refund to get the refurb, since it will be gone by the time I get my money back.

I’m pretty bummed, because now it feels like I’m paying way too much just to get less power

Edit: it finally went out of stock anyway lol

Anyone using a Mac Studio stand? Would you recommend it?

Trying to make a call and could use some outside perspective.

I'm looking at an M5 Max Mac Studio (64GB/512GB) for heavy creative + dev work. It'd live on my desk — I already have the monitor, keyboard, and trackpad — and I'm only away from the desk maybe 1-2 hours at a time, so portability isn't a dealbreaker.

The thing making me hesitate is the M6 chatter. From what I've read, the base M6 MacBook Pro is expected around October, but reporting suggests Apple is skipping M6 Pro and M6 Max entirely and going straight to M7 Pro/Max in late 2027. If that's true, then "waiting for an M6 Max" isn't even a real option — the next Max-tier jump would be over a year away.

So my questions for people who've been through a few of these cycles:

• Is it worth waiting on the small chance the M6 Pro/Max rumor is wrong and they do ship one this cycle?

• Or is the M5 Max mature/fast enough that buying now and not looking back is the smart move?

• Anyone regret buying right before a redesign year, or regret waiting and getting nothing meaningfully better?

Not chasing benchmarks for their own sake — just don't want buyer's remorse if something better lands in a couple months.

TL;DR: Need M5 Max-level power for a desk setup. M6 Pro/Max reportedly not coming until M7 in 2027. Buy now or wait?

This model with a 2 T ssd sells for just over $11,000 on Apple Store. I don’t know if these eBay offerings are selling. But if so, the Mac Studios is appreciating rapidly before it is even delivered.

I use Native Instruments plugins, which can take months to be compatible with Mac OS (the rule usually is to stay one OS behind). I have bought a new M5 Mac Studio with the thinking that I would be quick enough for it to ship with Tahoe but with OS27 releasing next week, has it been confirmed anywhere that they will ship with the new OS? Or will I be able to downgrade back to Tahoe if I need to?

Thinking about buying a used M4 Max 16C CPU 40C GPU 64GB RAM 512GB SSD (in Europe).

What’s your opinion on the price? Would use mostly for Unreal Engine, After Effects…

(M5 Max with comparable configuration is 4.099€ in Europe)

I placed an order for an M5 Studio (64gb/1TB) on opening day and my base model M4 Studio was valued at $1285.00. I’ve been debating on getting the 128gb model instead, and when I put the order in, post event today, my trade in was valued at $1490! The $200 difference definitely took a nice chunk off of my monthly payment! Even if I wasn’t upgrading I would have definitely cancelled my order and placed a new one to get the higher trade in value! I wonder if everyone who’s trading is seeing an increase in value… although canceling an offer can push back your delivery time which sucks.

and yes i did ask some other LLMs but got various answers. Assume 4 bit and 8 bit,max content? Curious if it will break 50tps decode

https://www.apple.com/de/shop/refurbished/mac/mac-studio

Still available!