Zac Hall, writing at 9to5Mac about the on-going challenges of buying a Mac Studio:
If you order an M3 Ultra Mac Studio with the only remaining RAM upgrade today,1 Apple says it will arrive in four to five months.
That means the 256GB RAM option ordered in April arrives in August or September if the shipping estimate tracks.
It’s not just the Mac Studio; it’s easy to build a Mac mini that won’t ship until August. That is bad news if you need a new Mac desktop on short notice. These long delays are not impacting all Macs, though, as the iMac and notebooks seem to all have much better shipping dates.
I assume we will see an update to the Mac mini and Mac Studio sooner rather than later, but I also would bet that Apple is steering its resources into making sure that models like the MacBook Air and Pro are easier to come by in the current climate of component shortages.
- Apple dropped the 512GB option back in early March. ↩