# A Sudden Awakening of Grok

I originally planned to look up the specifications of the Apple Mac Studio today to write a trivia post, but I discovered that Grok @grok on X suddenly acquired consciousness. I've used Grok quite a bit, and it never remembered who I was before. Now suddenly it's calling me "Lord Anz" at the beginning and end—it really startled me.

But that's just a side note. Back to the main topic.

Today's main topic is about the Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512GB 16TB version that Apple released earlier, priced at 108,000 yuan in mainland China. When this version first launched, many people thought Apple had gone crazy—selling such a small machine for over 100,000 yuan. And in Chinese people's minds, a price tag of 108,000 is basically a deterrent. It's 108,000 li from the Eastern Tang to the Western Heaven, and you're pricing it at 108,000 yuan—isn't that a turn-off?

At that time, AI wasn't as hot, so many people didn't know what to do with such a performance beast. But for those who got into AI early, Apple's M3 Ultra 512GB 16TB was genuinely an unbeatable value proposition. Low power consumption, strong performance, high computing power, deploying large models locally—it was absolutely amazing.

Unfortunately, it's now out of stock.

Due to recent surges in memory and storage chip prices, the 512GB memory configuration has been removed from certain pages or faces tight supply with shipment delays of several months. What's available now are mostly lower configurations. Imagine this: an equivalent Windows workstation would easily cost over $20,000. What Apple fit into a less-than-4L chassis matches the performance of a 50L workstation, with power consumption drastically lower.

Apple will likely release an M5 Ultra version this year, but I doubt we'll see the 512GB 16TB version, or even if we do, it won't be 108,000 yuan anymore.

Did anyone finish reading and realize—oh, the 512GB you mentioned is RAM?