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Apple Announces Powerful 'Mac Studio' With M1 Ultra Chip and Companion 'Studio Display'
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There is obviously still a Mini Pro w M1 Pro/Max still to come, which will basically be a headless MBP, and cheaper. For those that don't need portability, and want a bigger screen than 16". Horses for courses.
Nope, the M1 Pro chip is still missing from the Mini/Studio line up. The Mini Pro is obviously still to come.
Nope, the M1 Pro chip is still missing from the Mini/Studio line up. Mini Pro obviously still to come.
I presume they’re thinking of the Apple II rather than the 80’s Mac’s. The 80’s Macs were most certainly not good for gaming.
Is there any way of knowing how many Thunderbolt buses the two versions have? I think the latest M1 Max MacBook Pro’s have one bus per Thunderbolt port - really hoping the M1 Max Studio has four Thunderbolt buses.
If Mac Studio was going to offer M1 Pro, it would have been announced today. It seems clear Apple's internal market studies said that M1 Max is what the majority of buyers would go for and those who wanted to save a few hundred with an M1 Pro will pay the premium (or wait for an M2 iMac or M2 Mac mini).
I disagree, but we shall see.
Apple silicon Thunderbolt controllers to date have supported one port per controller so that should not change with M1 Ultra. Best I can tell, the M1 Max has three controllers for three ports, so having two of them would provide six controllers for six ports - and six ports is how many the Mac Studio has.
Good point. We will see in time I suppose.
You've made me think. When my current 2015 15" rMBP dies, I will be picking up a 16" MBP w 32GB RAM and 2TB SSD. I'm looking at AUD$5,250 for the M1 Pro 10/16, or AUD$5850 for the M1 Max 10/32. 11% bump. However, it's also $600 for a performance difference that I will likely never notice. I can think of other things to do with $600. For example, take my son skydiving. The experience of blowing his mind w Skydiving wins, hands down. TBH, I wish I could get these specs w an even lower spec chip. Even the M1 is overkill for me (but doesn't support 32GB RAM). Even if it was a saving of only a few hundred, that money could all go into experiences that will never be forgotten.
I bet you're right. I'm looking to replace an aging Mac Mini that I use as a dev box and I'm a bit frustrated with the M1 series as they couple higher amounts of RAM with more GPU cores. I suppose the Studio Pro base model with 32GB of RAM is not too bad at $2K but I doubt I'd ever be able to use all those cores and the GPU cores would just lie idle all the time.I wonder if my Studio (max) will run docker faster than my 2012 Mac mini (running Ubuntu). I suspect not.
I want to believe this is true but I have my doubts about a Mini with the M1 Max. That configuration has become the Mac Studio. However, I'm pretty sure we'll see the high-end Intel Mini replaced with a Mini with M1 Pro. There's plenty of pricing room between a 16 / 512 M1 Mini and the M1 Max Studio.
| Mini 16GB / 512 GB | $1099 |
| Mini M1 Pro 16GB / 512 GB, 8 core / 14 GPU | $1399 |
| Mini M1 Pro 16GB / 512GB, 10 core / 14 GPU | $1599 |
| Mini M1 Pro 16GB / 512GB, 10 core / 16 GPU | $1699 |
| Mac Studio Pro 32 GB / 512 GB (base model) | $1999 |
I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Yes, the cries for a mid-sized 'headless' desktop Mac started many years ago. Not only did we finally get this, they even put… gasp… ports on the FRONT!
They have been telling us for some years that they are serious about the Mac… Now they really are showing it.
The nostalgic side of me was kind of hoping this Mac (if it was ever released) would be a cube. While we all know the Cube as a failed experiment, it is still (IMO) one of the most beautiful designs that ever came out of Cupertino. I guess they chose function over form this time, and we can hardly blame them for that.
You have forgotten the eMac my friend!
hopefully a Mac mini with M1 Pro and maybe more 2 more TB ports than the M1 mini fills that gap.
and the 32 GB of RAM future proofs it so you don't have to sell it in a couple of years to stay current.
You should see Native Instruments' and their "Komplete" packages... It's like they don't even know what the definition of the word "complete" is.
The hardware is great. But anyone else feeling that the design is very underwhelming? It just looks like a grey PC now almost.
POTENTIALLY better thermals. But still not as good as a full sized machine. Also, they have a PSU in there, UNDER the mainboard, which seems like wasted space and extra heat for ...???
You mean Steve Jobs would've pushed someone else out a window if he had seen this...