Here are a few more renders from previous MacRumors articles. The first one actually looks pretty similar to the YouTuber's version. 3rd one is an actual Apple patent filing. Probably won't happen, but we can always hope.
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Alleged 'Mac Studio' Renders Surface Ahead of Tomorrow's 'Peek Performance' Apple Event
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And give up Apple's RAM/storage cash cow? Unlikely. The tech media will gush over the value of the base configuration while ignoring or zipping past the rapacious costs of more memory and storage.
Yeah - I posted in another thread that if you take the $1099 starting price of the current i5/8GB Mini as the base for a binned M1 Pro Mini, then work forward using BTO prices for RAM and CPU upgrades for the 14" MBP (including the "compulsory" RAM upgrades that come with the Pro and Max chips) you can easily get to te $2500+ mark for a M1 Max Mini, even without going for huge SSDs (I think 512GB is a sensible base for desktop machines).
The larger case, though, only makes sense to me with a M1 Max x2 or some "new" desktop-class M1 chip that (a) needs the cooling and (b) can support extra ports.
Normally I’d say no way. But if this a more pro focused desktop… it’s not out of the question at least.
Whatever the case, if this is true coupled with the display… I think this is gonna be my new setup. Nice.
3rd one makes zero sense - it looks like a Trashcan - with vertical airflow with the 3D outer case from a Mac Pro - with horizontal airflow. Looks like a business-as-usual defensive patent covering every possible permutation of features.
Anyway, I'd have thought that anything cylinder-shaped would have too much bad karma.
There are so many reasons they shouldn't, but I still would like to see them recreate the G4 Cube with modern innards...
Which is a shame. The trashcan is among my favorite designs. It might not be able to support the power requirements of a full on, no holds barred, Mac Pro, but seems appropriate for a studio machine like this.
Yeah the only problem with the Trash Can Mac Pro is that it replaced the modular Mac Pro, it would have been just fine alongside the OG as an option.
Also the fact that it was designed specifically for the GPU's it came with, which in turn means it never got updated lol
Now that Apple is rolling their own silicon however that problem should be in the past.
Yah, I hope that's not the design. Goodness, I thought the addiction to old designs was behind us.
But it's PEEK performance.... so where do you draw the parallel with "peek"? Will the case be transparent?
(I had one of these retro phones when I was teenager) ?
Or it was a way to dramatically increase the cooling of the 2013 Mac Pro to address that "thermal corner" they had backed themselves into.
It will likely have the M1 or M2 chip which has the memory on the chip instead of being something separate (general soc design just like portables) so memory thing is never going to happen. Storage on the other hand is still separate (though often soldered on the board in laptops).
Mac Studio (base model):
- M1 Pro SoC
- 8-core CPU (6P/2E)
- 14-core GPU
- 16-core Neural Engine
- 16GB LPDDR5 RAM
- 200GB/s UMA
- 512GB NVMe SSD
- Gigabit Ethernet (RJ45) port
- (4) Thunderbolt 4 / USB 4 (USB-C) ports
- (2) USB 3.1 Gen 2 (USB-A) ports
- HDMI 2.0 port
- 3.5mm headphone jack (same DAC as 2021 MBP)
- $1499
- Dual M1 Max SoCs
- 20-core CPU (16P/4E)
- 64-core GPU
- 32-core Neural Engine
- 128GB LPDDR5 RAM
- 800GB/s UMA
- 8TB NVMe SSD
- 10Gb Ethernet (RJ45) port
- (6) Thunderbolt 4 / USB 4 (USB-C) ports
- (4) USB 3.1 Gen 2 (USB-A) ports
- HDMI 2.0 port
- 3.5mm headphone jack (same DAC as 2021 MBP)
- $6999
It may not be related to "struggling" at all, but rather getting peak performance out of the same chip with a more advanced cooling system that takes up much more space than what fits in a MacBook Pro.
I hate to tell you, but there is absolutely no way Apple is going to let anyone get access to the M1 Pro for only $1200.I sure hope this is not accurate. I was hoping for a Mac Mini with an M1 Pro for around $1,200, but this would obviously be way more expensive, like $2,500 +
Didn’t some YouTuber shove the internals of an iMac mini into a case that was 30% smaller, and the performance was the same?
Given it‘s from Luke Miani, I dont have much of a hope of this being true. Also this is 2 or 3 times thicker than the current Mac Mini. Given how M1 chips are doing on laptops already, I highlight doubt Apple will make it thicker than the current Mac Mini. More likely it‘ll be thinner than the current Mac Mini.
If it’s actually that size, it’s probably because Apple decided to bring back the Fusion Drive in order to clear their stock of 5400rpm HDDs.