apple's consumers are willing to dump premium money for memory and storage upgrades. why let consumers save money on these things when you can just force them to buy from apple when they are willing to pay for it? my bet is that the Mac Studio will just have a bunch of usb-c ports and will expect the market to shift these form factors rather than pci-e form factors.
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Alleged 'Mac Studio' Renders Surface Ahead of Tomorrow's 'Peek Performance' Apple Event
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I guess we will find out tomorrow.
PS. You know Jon Prosser is just a youtuber too right?
Shouldn't it be pointy then?
But, seriously, most of us just want a MM with an M2 and a full-function HDMI 2.1 port to finally replace our HTPC's again.
Edit2: Oh....and fugly. I hope Jony sees that render...he'll likely puke in his mouth a little.
iChonk...
Actually I missed out on the original G4 cube... always been admired by industrial designers (though had tech issues)... I'd wish they'd do something as inspired (or inspired) by that legendary work of mac art.
Plus, I never did like the color of the Trash Can in person. In the PR images, it looked like a shiny black. In person it was a weird slate-grey color that I never much cared for. Otherwise though it was a great design as a mid-tier machine that was overly ambitious in it's "pro" aspirations.
If memory is user upgradable, it won’t match the performance of M1 Macs, unified ram is one of many reasons why MacBook Pro 2021 smokes Mac Pro 2019 in most tasks, while having weaker hardware.
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...
Sp the Mac Studio is reported to be about 4" tall, which would be 8" when doubled; how is that like the Corsair One which is nearly 15" tall...?
Engineer dude (Hector something...?) says the interrupt hardware on the M1 Max SoC will only support a dual configuration at this point...?
I believe Apple is still working on the quad SoC Mac Pro that has PCIe slots; this Mac Studio will rely on TB4/USB4 ports for all expansion...?
Some nerd probably pulled that chubby mac mini render out of their butt and sold it to him as reliable information.
This looks like an April Fool's joke. It's a fat G4 mini. Makes no sense unless it really is just a bunch of wasted space to make the IO panel tall enough for a bunch of ports.
Cooling, a slot(s), multiple drives, wifi hardware? I remember the Airport Extreme that still had the drive slot from the Time Capsule. That's why it seems goofy. Too thick for what it is, unless it's got some slots for cards or drives, or multiprocessor? Hmm... Will have to wait, see what comes out, what iFixit finds. Could be interesting.
You could fit two units horizontally in a 3U enclosure; flip them on their side in a 5U enclosure and you could fit four units...?
Assuming dimensions of 4.0" x 7.7" x 7.7" (H x W x D)
I used to like Miani but some of his posts have been contradicting and simply not true particularly about equipment and use cases when he didn't use them or he was not even an adult. But then when do these Youtube "celeb's" really use machines in the real world like other people to do....
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As shown it would have a fair amount of functionality....But it would lack even a modicum of je ne sais quoi (an appealing quality that can't be easily described).
It is a box that holds a lot of compute horsepower (scaling from a single M1 Pro SoC to dual M1 Max SoCs), without any fancy design elements that drive up overall cost (looking at you, 2019 Intel Mac Pro chassis)...
I expect they would steer clear of that design for PR reasons - there's a lot of (deserved) ill will towards that machine, not so much for the design itself, but for the way they left it (and the customers who bought them) twisting in the wind for years with no updates - they congratulated themselves on the design and then... walked away. The new machine is very likely to be a right rectangular prism - a box.
Makes me think Apple is going to a 3x3 product matrix...
Laptops:
Laptops:
- 14" MacBook - Mn SoC
- 14" MacBook Pro - Mn Pro/Max SoC
- 16" MacBook Pro - Mn Pro/Max SoC
- 24" iMac - Mn SoC
- 27" iMac - Mn Pro/Max SoC
- 32" iMac Pro - Dual Mn Max SoCs
- Mac mini - Mn SoC
- Mac Studio - M1 Pro/Max SoC, Dual Mn Max SoCs
- Mac Pro - Dual & Quad Mn Max SoCs
Nodes vs modular? Why would I use a whole power strip on AC adapters for hubs and cards when one tower is a far cheaper elegant solution?
It looks 'goofy'. Say it... *shrug*
I'm sure, if that's what it looks like IRL, it'll grow on you. (Or put it away on a shelf, etc and never look at it again)
20 USB? 24 HDMI? That's a lot of landscape to be filled, yikes...
EDIT: And it's fan hole all the way down. Well, not quite all the way, but a good portion of it. How hot is that thing going to get?
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I would actually appreciate a new version of the trash can, I liked the aesthetics. I had one as my work computer for a while, it ran fine, not particularly fast, but it was OK. Maybe someone will shoehorn a broken mini or MBp into a trash can.
Now that is SERIOUSLY butt ugly! I certainly hope what we see tomorrow looks nothing like this abortion of a design.