AI hardware prices — 2026-11-04
Daily AI hardware price/supply snapshot with illustrative landed costs (sales tax ~10%).
Daily digest — 2026-11-04 PT
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Report 2026-11-04 PT
Illustrative landed (sales tax ~10%)
No invented prices
Highlights
- In-stock buy picks (observational, not financial advice): (1) Stock flip: B&H's Mac Studio M5 Max 128GB/1TB went from Preorder / Coming Soon to In Stock at $5,399 (~$5,939 illustrative landed, sales tax ~10%). It's the first in-stock read for that config in 40 days of tracking, and Apple's own page still lists it as a build-to-order wait. That's 128GB of unified memory for about $1,550 less than the cheapest buyable new GB10. (2) B&H Mac Studio M5 Max 36GB/512GB is still $2,299 (~$2,529 landed), at its tracked low with "limited supply at this price"; the $200 Holiday Savings offer ends Nov 5. Every B&H GB10 is still out of stock, so the cheapest buyable new GB10 remains Micro Center's DGX Spark at $6,949.99 (25+, pickup only), which is a status note, not a deal.
- Movers: Amazon ASUS TUF 5090 dropped $200 to $7,499.99 (third-party seller, only 2 left). B&H M5 Max 36GB/2TB ($3,299) went from In Stock to Coming Soon. Everything else re-read today is flat. GMKtec, Beelink, Framework DIY complete, the Micro Center 5090 card pages, Best Buy DGX and NVIDIA Marketplace are now on a weekly check (next Monday).
- AI Box deal watch (observational): best same-day discrete 5090 street is $7,499.99 (Amazon, third-party), so the +10% band is about $8,250. The in-stock BuyDirectNY AORUS AI Box at $7,999 is about 6.7% above the card, inside the band. B&H's AI Box at $5,099.99 is still out of stock. TB5 is much slower than PCIe x16.
- Local resale: the cheapest credible local GB10 is still a Gigabyte AI TOP ATOM at $6,000, and a used M5 Max Mac Studio ask is still $2,199. Two new "RTX 5090" listings turned out to be complete Alienware desktops, not cards, and are excluded from card trends.
Price table
Illustrative landed costs (sales tax ~10%). Product · Retailer · Landed · Stock · Link — scroll horizontally if needed. Stock shows qty when a retailer exposes it (e.g. in stock (3)); otherwise status only.
| Product | Retailer | Landed | Stock | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mac Studio M5 Max (base) | B&H | $2,528.90 | limited | Open |
| Mac Studio M5 Max (other configs) | B&H | $3,078.90 | in stock | Open |
| Framework Desktop (Ryzen AI Max+ 395 / Strix Halo) | Framework | $3,463.90 | in stock | Open |
| Minisforum MS-S1 Max (Ryzen AI Max+ 395 / Strix Halo) | Minisforum | $4,310.90 | in stock | Open |
| Gigabyte AORUS RTX 5090 AI BOX 32GB | B&H | $5,609.99 | OOS | Open |
| Mac Studio M5 Max 128GB | B&H | $5,938.90 | in stock | Open |
| Mac Studio M5 Ultra 96GB | B&H | $6,048.90 | preorder | Open |
| Acer Veriton GN100 (DGX Spark platform) | B&H | $6,378.90 | OOS | Open |
| Lenovo ThinkStation PGX (DGX Spark platform) | B&H | $6,444.90 | OOS | Open |
| ASUS Ascent GX10 (DGX Spark platform) | B&H | $6,598.90 | OOS | Open |
| NVIDIA DGX Spark (Founders / NVIDIA-branded) | Micro Center | $7,644.99 | in stock (25) | Open |
| GeForce RTX 5090 32GB | Amazon | $8,249.99 | limited (2) | Open |
| HP ZGX Nano G1n (GB10) | B&H | $8,468.90 | OOS | Open |
| Gigabyte AI TOP ATOM (DGX Spark platform) | B&H | $9,898.90 | OOS | Open |
| Mac Studio M5 Ultra 256GB | B&H | $10,448.90 | preorder | Open |
| Mac Studio M5 Ultra 256GB 80-GPU | B&H | $11,878.90 | preorder | Open |
| Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB 80-GPU | Apple | $24,528.90 | preorder | Open |
Inventory snapshot
Inventory snapshot (best observed retail/MSRP row per product): 5 in stock, 2 limited, 4 preorder, 6 OOS. Numeric qty captured on 2 row(s).
- NVIDIA DGX Spark (Founders / NVIDIA-branded) @ Micro Center: in stock (25)
- GeForce RTX 5090 32GB @ Amazon: limited (2)
Key charts
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