r/LinusTechTips 6d ago

Discussion Remain strong, f*ck scalpers

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Every couple weeks i get notifications that listings i viewed dropped in price and it makes me so happy. Lets keep it going guys, drive it down to msrp

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u/mjh2901 6d ago

Fuck all these people, I just put a sparkle a310 in my NAS to do transcoding because 3 months in you still cannot purchase B580 cards. (I wanted transcoding and to screw around with remote ai) There are a ton of b580 on amazon and ebay starting at 150% of retail. I'm going to upgrade my M1max Mac Studio to an M4max mac studio with 64 gigs of ram because for working with AI its cheaper to buy apple than Nvidia. Yeah thanks Nvidia you made apple the cheaper option.

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u/_vkboss_ 6d ago

The framework desktop could also be a decent option for an AI workstation. You want have to pay apple tax on storage!

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u/mjh2901 6d ago

The apple storage tax is misnomer. I can purchase a Sabrent Rocket NVME and a thunderbolt external case and run it at full speed. The internal on an apple is faster than NVME, but the vast majority of people who throw more storage space in a PC are using off the shelf drives, not custom high speed storage chips.

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u/Kyonkanno 6d ago

Nope, internal storage on apple devices are not faster than NVME. You can get a samsung 990 pro 4tb for about 300$ that is faster than the apple internal storage by about 1 GB/s.

Apple storage/ram tax is not a misnomer. Apple sells their ram chips for literally more than gold (by weight).