Alleged 'Mac Studio' Renders Surface Ahead of Tomorrow's 'Peek Performance' Apple Event

[Boil]

More space than the current 2018 Intel Mac mini chassis back plate can provide would be needed for the extra ports a dual M1 Max SoC configuration would be needed, and a larger exhaust vent to match the larger heat sink...?

 

[madebybela]

I feel like Miani got baited since he desperately wants to believe there's going to be more to an event where the headliners are the ***** iPhone SE and iPad Air.

Not to deny the existence of this product, but it would feel odd for them to drop it when events like these are usually more uh... "consumer friendly" I suppose.

Feels like MACBOOK PRO CONFIRMED AT WWDC21 happening all over again.

 

[Boil]

I want to see the Mac Studio in Space Gray...!

 

[Realityck]

Not like that image rendering is original we saw something like that awhile back with a MacRumors thread.

 

[Gotfredsen]

Makes me think Apple is going to a 3x3 product matrix...

Laptops:

• 14" MacBook - Mn SoC
• 14" MacBook Pro - Mn Pro/Max SoC
• 16" MacBook Pro - Mn Pro/Max SoC

All-In-One:

• 24" iMac - Mn SoC
• 27" iMac - Mn Pro/Max SoC
• 32" iMac Pro - Dual Mn Max SoCs

Headless Desktops:

• Mac mini - Mn SoC
• Mac Studio - M1 Pro/Max SoC, Dual Mn Max SoCs
• Mac Pro - Dual & Quad Mn Max SoCs

yeah or we get Mac mini, Mac Studio and Mac Studio Pro , much like the MacBook Air, MacBook and MacBook Pro

 

[profcutter]

I don't know... and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn last night. ?

Working from rumors and speculation of others, apparently DUO comes from the magic of "special fabric"... which I interpret as creating the equivalent of ONE bigger chip... OR more like a network of 2 separate computers working in tandem. If you think back to X-grid or whatever it was called, where you could share the work across separate Macs to collectively tap their horsepower to speed up some task able to use it, that's mostly what I think DUO can be.

That's how I also imagine the further rumored QUAD: basically 4 "Macs" able to work together through some kind of link (fabric or whatever else). If so, then conceptually, each could have its own unified RAM for doing its part of the shared work and, at least in my head, it's own fast storage too.

However, I am FARRRRRRRRRRRR from expert at this kind of thing. Perhaps the magic fabric links M1 MAXs together as if they ARE one unified chip? All rumors about it keep seeming to get them their own RAM though and, until this thread, I have been under the impression that they could have their own extra fast storage too.

Yeah, I’m no chip engineer either, but it just strikes me as odd, with all the hoopla around shared memory, that they would then have multiple pools of memory again, it seems like it kind of defeats the purpose, but what do I know?

 

[bobcomer]

That sucker is FAT! I bet it'll be WAY more expensive than I want to spend.

 

[sfwalter]

Remind me of

 

[Bonte]

I’m in for a mid range desktop with enough ports, the M1 is already plenty for my use, I just need the ports.

 

[Jimmdean]

Nice, but the only thing I want is a powerful 27+ inch iMac for editing and rendering. And if the rumors are to believed that's not happening this year...

it may not happen at all. Apple could decide that there should only be 2 iMacs - a smaller consumer model and a larger pro model. that would cut out the larger consumer model. I doubt too many people on this forum are actually in the market for the kind of pro iMac they had previously.

 

[Jimmdean]

I doubt Apple will ever put a DisplayPort port on a Mac since you can use a USB/TB to DP cable to connect to a DP display.

not an actual DP port - just a non-nerfed Thunderbolt port that fully adheres to the spec.

 

[bobcomer]

I bet that little Mini ME computer has a BIG PRICE TAG!

I'm gonna say $5000 Bucks. Maybe more?

$6000 is my guess, and that's probably with just 32G of RAM.

 

[greenmeanie]

I liked the rumor where it looked like a smaller version of the MacPro.
This looks Fugly.

 

[CJM]

If it had a standard 2.5” SSD drive and user expandable RAM this would bring my dad back to the Mac. Kinda excited to see what tomorrow brings.

 

[Boil]

I want to see it in Space Gray, with the top panel lighting up like the table tops in the Mos Eisley cantina...!

 

[apernett]

Is that a hat box, right? RIGHT?

 

[Boil]

Is that a hat box, right? RIGHT?

Nah, that's Mac "Fat Box" Studio, new kid around these parts...! ;^p

 

[Big Jobs]

yeah nah it ain't gonna look like that crappy render......>sic.

 

[Unami]

no way. if they can fit a m1max, battery, keyboard, speaker and screen into a mbp case and after the news that they are planning on new GaN power supplies, why would they fatten up the macmini ? on the other hand, it looks like the time when a perfectly proportioned appletv 3 got fatter.

 

[Colpeas]

Please please please have user-expandable memory & storage.

I very much doubt that, given the M-series chip architecture.

 

[upthetoffees]

I think it's real and what we will see tomorrow. I am interested in how it will deal with noise. I am ready to buy and sadly replace my noisy imac 2019 27", gorgeous screen, lousy, noisy computer alas.

 

[WannaGoMac]

Not a design person, but wow this is that an ugly ass design ...

 

[upthetoffees]

Not a design person, but wow this is that an ugly ass design ...

The oxymoron is strong with this one..

 

[Tozovac]

Please please please have user-expandable memory & storage.

What, and eat into shareholder growth needs? Why have the customer upgrade when he/she/they should replace?

 

[CarlJ]

20 USB? 24 HDMI? That's a lot of landscape to be filled, yikes...

Nah, you’re going about this all wrong - finally there’s space to add full-sized RS-232 serial ports (db25s, not them newfangled db9s), a Centronics parallel port, a couple SCSI-1 ports, a proper Ethernet transceiver…