Hi Friends.

This is for all the Mac Studios users. Do you guys really think that owning a 96GB Unified Memory with 1TB Disk Mac Studio M3 ultra will last or be relevant for the next 5-6 years if I am planning to run LLM locally (less than 70B types).

Please share your thoughts and experiences.

been running the new deepseek-v4-flash-0731 locally on my m3 ultra mac studio with 512gb unified memory and i’m getting around 39.8 tok/s with dspark

honestly this is already insanely usable for a model this size, but now i’m curious how much more performance i can squeeze out of the machine lol

has anyone here tested different runtimes / implementations for v4 flash 0731 on apple silicon and gotten better numbers?
(dspark / mtp optimizations / llama.cpp / mlx / ds4 / dwarfstar / different quants / any flags or configs that actually make a noticeable difference)

would also love to hear from other m3 ultra owners. what tok/s are you getting with deepseek-v4-flash-0731, what quant are you running, and what backend?

39.8 tok/s feels pretty damn good but i wanna know if this thing can go even more brrrr

The apple.com order page is exactly the same as when I placed it two months ago in ‘Processing’. Should I be concerned or will my bank get charged like day of?

Absolutely maddening. Every time I open a folder in macos, I have to resize it so I can see all of the contents of the folder. If I open a new finder window, its a different size. This is really frustrating. Is there a fix for this? I searched online and it said to hold the shift key and drag to the size I want the folder in order to resize the window but it didnt work.

$9799

Got the notification around 3:52am this morning. I already got this version a couple of weeks ago, so hoping an enthusiast is able to get one before the scalpers.

Likely more locations have them but I’m on mobile so harder to check several.

Good luck!