Off-Prem<\/p>\n
\n Apple’s Mac Studio<\/p>\n
Manages to get its hands on some Mac Studio machines before the OpenClaw machine grabs them<\/p>\n
Amazon Web Services has done something many others can\u2019t achieve: Buy a bunch of Apple\u2019s Mac Studio computers.<\/p>\n
Mac Studio is Apple\u2019s workstation-grade machine and has been hard to find in recent weeks as Cupertino struggles to find enough RAM to fill them, and AI enthusiasts snap up stock to run tools like OpenClaw. At the time of writing, Apple advises buyers they\u2019ll need to wait nine or ten weeks for a Mac Studio to arrive.<\/p>\n
The cloudy Macs AWS has racked and stacked pack Apple\u2019s M3 Ultra SoC, Cupertino\u2019s most powerful chip. Apple currently sells the Mac Studio with up to 96GB of RAM.<\/p>\n
AWS on Thursday started offering a cloudy M3 Ultra with 256GB of unified memory, a configuration The Register did not see as an option on Apple.com while preparing this article.<\/p>\n
The cloudy M3 Ultra machines run on actual Mac Studios packing a 28-core CPU, 60-core GPU, and 32-core Neural Engine. At the time of writing, AWS hadn\u2019t updated its list of EC2 instance types to include the new M3 instances, so we can\u2019t tell you what they\u2019ll cost or if the cloud giant has departed from its past practice of renting bare metal machines rather than macOS VMs.<\/p>\n
Apple allows users to create and run macOS virtual machines, but only on Apple hardware and allows just two VMs per host. Cupertino also restricts use of VMs to four purposes: software development; testing during software development; using macOS Server; and personal, non-commercial use.<\/p>\n
AWS recommends its cloudy Macs as an ideal platform to build and test apps for all of Apple\u2019s operating systems \u2013 even the visionOS that powers its unloved Vision Pro VR goggles.<\/p>\n
Amazon\u2019s M3 Ultra Mac Studios only made it into two regions \u2013 US East and US West (Oregon) \u2013 so users elsewhere who fancy a cloudy Mac but need lower latency will have to endure the very on-prem experience of waiting for hardware to show up. \u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Off-Prem Apple’s Mac Studio Manages to get its hands on some Mac Studio machines before the OpenClaw machine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-449789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}