--- title: Apple’s 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet... description: Apple has quietly removed the 512GB RAM configuration from its top-tier M3 Ultra Mac Studio, while also raising the price of the 256GB model from $1,600 to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/apple-s-512gb-mac-studio-vanishes-a-quiet-acknowledgment-of-the-ram-shortage-yswz8jnjl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Apple’s 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage | daily.dev og:description: Apple has quietly removed the 512GB RAM configuration from its top-tier M3 Ultra Mac Studio, while also raising the price of the 256GB model from $1,600 to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/apple-s-512gb-mac-studio-vanishes-a-quiet-acknowledgment-of-the-ram-shortage-yswz8jnjl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YSwz8JnJl.png og:image:alt: Apple’s 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Apple’s 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Apple has quietly removed the 512GB RAM configuration from its top-tier M3 Ultra Mac Studio, while also raising the price of the 256GB model from $1,600 to $2,000. The move is seen as a subtle acknowledgment of the ongoing AI-driven memory and storage supply crunch, even as Apple managed to hold or improve specs and pricing across most of its other recent product announcements. The 512GB Mac Studio was a niche, high-end machine priced at $9,499, and Apple has not yet commented on the removal. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Mac mini and Mac Studio go out of stock – is it the RAM crisis or an M5 refresh?](https://daily.dev/posts/mac-mini-and-mac-studio-go-out-of-stock-is-it-the-ram-crisis-or-an-m5-refresh--fmnhrloyf) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Apple’s $599 Mac mini is gone. 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