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

PinkyMacGodess said:
There were some very scary connectors from those days. Some with coax and other exotic connectors. Then the old huge square connectors too. Those were the days. Seemed you paid by the pound for some of those cables. I still had some of the old style Cisco router cables around. I still have a 232 breakout box around. Used it for industrial automation stuff in the end. History...
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Not a cable, but an essential piece of networking equipment for me at the time; I miss my acoustic coupler, it was very WarGames...!

Ethosik said:
Do you think Apple will no longer offer 1.5 TB of RAM in the Mac Pro once it gets Apple Silicon? Or do you think there will be a mix environment? Unified memory and standard memory?
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I think one of the hold-ups on the Apple silicon Mac Pro might be the wait for LPDDR5X RAM:
  • Pin-compatible with LPDDR5 RAM
  • High-density 64GB chips
  • 33% faster
  • 20% lower power usage

This would allow:
  • M1 Pro - 128GB
  • M1 Max - 256GB
  • Dual M1 Max - 512GB
  • Quad M1 Max - 1TB
 
Yeah I expect that Luke was only given the dimensions and the grid on the bottom, not the port configuration which is why he did not render the back or the front ports.
 
subi257 said:
Yeah, my Trash Can collects a lot of dust....just sitting on a desk.
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Well, it's announced, and apparently there is a secondary market for a Mac Studio Filter Stand.

EDIT: I was always slightly horrified to see the fine dust in my machines. I mean, how can I breath?!?!:oops:
 
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Boil said:
Not a cable, but an essential piece of networking equipment for me at the time; I miss my acoustic coupler, it was very WarGames...!
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I never actually ever owned one. Hard to believe now that I think about it. I started right in to the slowest modem ever (fast for the day) and progressed through those to ISDN (BLAZING FAST compared to dialup) and on to my first broadband cable modem. (I actually cried, the speeds were that good, but I'm a sap/romantic) I used to support Novell Netware clients and Novell updates were behemoth galactic sized massive. Always had to burn a disc as flash drives were still far too small at the time.
 
profcutter said:
I don’t think it’s going to look like that. I mean I really don’t think so. At all.
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Ok, well I was right on the plasticy top part, and the shape of the vents, but damn if I don’t know when I’ve been proved wrong overall. They were right.
 
PinkyMacGodess said:
Slots to circles, and ports, but really close.

Apple *could* have thrown an extra HDMI port on the back. Just saying. Apple is still 'dongle city' for so much stuff.
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I prefer the more versatile Thunderbolt 4 ports, personally.

I am very pleasantly surprised that 10GbE ethernet comes standard.

I'm going to buy a lot of the M1 Max model this year, and hopefully a couple M1 Ultra. I had $12K budgeted for a 2019 Mac Pro that I can now cut down to a $6K Mac Studio config.
 
Pezimak said:
Did he? He is claiming he made this from information from ‘his sources’, so he is claiming to have sources no one else does, and he also claims their will be no new laptops launched tomorrow, it’ll effectively only be a new iPhone Pro colour and this Mac Studio. We shall see.
But I think it makes for a nice compact machine, can see lots of users buying it price dependant of course.
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He did! And I'm pleased to see things turn out the way they did at today's event! Good for Luke.
 
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subi257 said:
Yeah, my Trash Can collects a lot of dust....just sitting on a desk.
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looks like Apple did some similar cooling system as the Mac Pro 2013. I watched Apple's video explaining the ventilation....

It looks good on video...but it is going to get dusty in the inside...how can you clean it out? At least the Mac Pro 2013's casing can open up and be dusted out...but the new Mac Studio....Umm....yea....a nightmare for dust...

Apple expects you to get rid of it in 3-4 years...might be costly for consumer, but hey..Apple consumers don't care.
 
PinkyMacGodess said:
Apple *could* have thrown an extra HDMI port on the back. Just saying. Apple is still 'dongle city' for so much stuff.
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Meh, one TV connected is enough. DisplayPort is better for monitors. Get a cable that's TB4 on one end and DisplayPort on the other. No need for dongles.
 
Fomalhaut said:
I agree. The current Mini form-factor seems to have adequate cooling for an M1 Max and probably a souped-up M1 "Ultra", considering that most of the case is just air and the M1 Max seems to run quite cooly in a packed MacBook Pro.

If it were this thick, it would either imply (a) a far more powerful SoC - "M1 Max Duo"?, which seems a bit unlikely (b) Replaceable storage and RAM - also not expected, or (c) masses of port on the rear - also not expected, and in any case the current Mini has space for the expected ports.

The design might be slightly larger to accommodate better cooling, but I don't see it growing this much, unless it is actually a "Pro Mini", with space for full-length PCIe cards, which would be a much larger machine.

I am curious to see what arrives tomorrow however!
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Looks like I was wrong! Luke Miani clearly had some good intel on what was coming.

Option (a) - M1 Max "Duo" (aka Ultra) was indeed the option that transpired, requiring the large cooling system.
 
Fomalhaut said:
Looks like I was wrong! Luke Miani clearly had some good intel on what was coming.

Option (a) - M1 Max "Duo" (aka Ultra) was indeed the option that transpired, requiring the large cooling system.
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Yeah...he was right. Now Apple will send the Apple police after him to find out "who" gave him the info..He needs to be on the run now..
 
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