Are you satisfied with your purchase of the Mac Studio?

[Landing]

I’m curious to know your experience with your Mac Studio after using it for some time. What features do you miss on it, and what changes would you make to improve it?

- I wish I had bought it with a bit more RAM.
- Wi-Fi 7 would be great.
- A headphone jack on the front would be nice. It's not really well placed
- A color LED with different status indicators (orange when in sleep mode, etc.) would be great.
- A smaller footprint. (It’s still excellent as it is.)

 

[S.B.G]

So far it's doing everything I wanted it to do. The only thing I'd change is to make it less expensive.

 

[JSRinUK]

The only thing making me look ahead a couple of years is more RAM and higher memory bandwidth.

My 128GB M4 Max Studio is a fantastic machine, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say I’d like more and faster RAM. At the same or cheaper price, of course.

But this is sufficient to last me a few years for now.

 

[Landing]

So far it's doing everything I wanted it to do. The only thing I'd change is to make it less expensive.

I mean, it is not so bad right now. The problem is the price of the RAM or SDD from Apple. It's almost extortion

 

[edubfromktown]

100% satisfied with M1 Max 32/512.

Never had any coil whine/excessive noise issues (it has been attached to a 1500 VA UPS from the beginning).

The fan is inaudible under normal usage and rarely kicks up RPM's except for when I'm running high demand processing tasks. The internal storage is ripping fast and I get ~50% of that throughput using dual external RAID-0 striped Kingston 3000 NVMe v2's that are older/faster with on-board cache than the majority of less expensive NVMe offerings these days.

 

[Varmann]

Very satisfied. M4 max 64GB/4TB. But nothing is ever “fast enough”.

If you swear to cable connections, then the number of ports are limiting. In addition, I have almost filled OWCs biggest dock.

I upgraded from a 2018 Mac mini 8GB (botched an upgrade to 64GB, ruined last screw head)

 

[EdwardC]

Bought a M4 Max base for $1,699.00 from Micro Center to replace a M2 Pro Mini. 2D CAD and typical office use. Dead quiet and a joy to use. Love it! (Have not installed Tahoe).

 

[maflynn]

I’m curious to know your experience with your Mac Studio after using it for some time. What features do you miss on it, and what changes would you make to improve it?

Overall, I'm extremely happy, I've said this multiple times in numerous threads - the M4 Max Studio is by far the best computer I've owned.

As for changes/upgrades - the only thing I wished that we had, was user replaceable storage. Technically we do, but its not sanctioned by apple, nor do they sell the upgrade kits.

 

[BrianBaughn]

My M1 Max Mac Studio has been good. Lost Ethernet via a power surge (lightning).

Adding the amount and quality of extra storage I need was/is kind of a pain, though.

 

[JaredJenkinsDesign]

I had the M1 Max Mac Studio and currently have the M3 Ultra Mac Studio. My experience with both has been very positive. I agree on the SSD and RAM comments as I wish it had more or we could upgrade them.

 

[Varmann]

Just today my M4 surprised me positively.
I sat web browsing, playing a bit Baldurs gate 3, while simultaneously making a 30 min music video-mix to a halloween party in Imovie. When playing the result in VLC a second time the sound got distorted. I tried QT, sounded fine. Then I remembered, I had sat the machine to convert a lot of video files in Handbrake, before I started doing other things. I had not felt any slowdown for four hours while having such a heavy load in the background.

 

[johnny dollar]

I'd like to see a digital audio output myself. I remember back when some iMacs had them.

 

[rb2112]

I’m curious to know your experience with your Mac Studio after using it for some time. What features do you miss on it, and what changes would you make to improve it?

M4 Max 36GB (base). I miss not getting more RAM as earlier, I was not running local LLMs and did not know I was going to....