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Apple's Mac Studio

Manages to get its hands on some Mac Studio machines before the OpenClaw machine grabs them

Amazon Web Services has done something many others can’t achieve: Buy a bunch of Apple’s Mac Studio computers.

Mac Studio is Apple’s 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’ll need to wait nine or ten weeks for a Mac Studio to arrive.

The cloudy Macs AWS has racked and stacked pack Apple’s M3 Ultra SoC, Cupertino’s most powerful chip. Apple currently sells the Mac Studio with up to 96GB of RAM.

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.

The cloudy M3 Ultra machines run on actual Mac Studios packing a 28-core CPU, 60-core GPU, and 32-core Neural Engine.…