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Gurman: 'Mac Studio' Mac Mini/Mac Pro Hybrid and New Display With A-Series Chip Are 'Ready to Go'

If you put an A chip in the monitor, I'd imagine it could then perform duties like most other 'home' devices:
  • - It'll hear you when you say "Hey Siri"
  • - A visual Siri could:
    • Show you your calendar for the next day
    • Show you the 'weather'
    • Start a TV program
    • Talk to you (will this have speakers?) - if so, they become a homepod too
 
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dgdosen said:
If you put an A chip in the monitor, I'd imagine it could then perform duties like most other 'home' devices:
  • - It'll hear you when you say "Hey Siri"
  • - A visual Siri could:
    • Show you your calendar for the next day
    • Show you the 'weather'
    • Start a TV program
    • Talk to you (will this have speakers?) - if so, they become a homepod too
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Oh brother. Yet another device which responds to Hey Siri.
 
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Really not sure what to do with the runout that it runs iOS. So touchscreen? Siri only? I mean it would be useful for people that dock.
 
toke lahti said:
Is this new Studio Display maybe "an apple-tv with a screen"?

If it would be bigger, I'd buy one.
27" is soooOOO 90's...
(Yes, apple's first 27" product came in 2009, should I then say "so 00's", how do you say that? English is not my mother tongue...)
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27" is pretty good when you're sitting close to it on a desk, like an iMac.
Or maybe I'm just old. My teenage son has a Samsung 49" ultra wide [powered by a 3080 that cost 2.5x its list price!] and that's impossible to use for anything other than gaming.
 
Whoa, I'm a time traveler. Had one of these fancy Mac mini studio's for years plaintext_mac-cube_805456.jpg
 
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If this thing is a reality then my only question is what took so long? People have been asking for a desktop mac(thats not gimped with low end laptop specs) since when? I've heard a 1000 excuses from people saying why it's not needed in the lineup because of the iMac which is an all-in-one. I can't buy into Apple Silicone is the only way this is a reality. They were shoving decent Intel chips into laptops for ages.
 
I get it's only a render, but I wonder why we'd ever need a case that's twice as high as the current mini - the mini is already essentially an empty box because they reused an old design for a small computer with room for HDDs and beefier ventilation for x86 chips.

The mini is a logic board with soldered SoC, RAM and SSD chips - HDDs are a thing of the past, and we won't have discrete GPUs anytime soon. Why on Earth would we need a big box like that?
 
An iOS monitor with pencil support would be amazing. I’d love to run Procreate on 27”.
 
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crsh1976 said:
The mini is a logic board with soldered SoC, RAM and SSD chips - HDDs are a thing of the past, and we won't have discrete GPUs anytime soon. Why on Earth would we need a big box like that?
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To quote myself:

Juuro said:
Just imagine you have two M1 Max in there. That means double the heat as in an 14" MBP and double the Ram means also more heat. Ram can also get hot. And maybe 8 TB is not enough for (Semi-)Professionals.
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Juuro said:
Currently there is no Mac mini with one M1 Max. There is only a Mac mini with an M1. I think it is possible to put an M1 Max in a Mac mini but then it would be full with fans and heatsinks. At the moment the M1 Mac mini is half empty. And following that logic if you can cool one M1 Max in the size of one Mac mini you need two Mac minis to cool two M1 Max. Now add double the Ram and more SSDs and more ports on the back and maybe a SD card slot and you are at around the size of this 4" Mac Studio.
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Honest question, is there a place for computer unit(mac mini)+display AND all-in-one iMac? Why?
 
MacBH928 said:
Honest question, is there a place for computer unit(mac mini)+display AND all-in-one iMac? Why?
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The Mac mini win the past was a small iMac without the screen. The bigger iMac just didn't have a counterpart without a screen. So why not have a screenless powerful iMac as well?
 
mrr said:
Sounds good. Price will be everything.
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You got that right... price will be everything... you have in your account :)... I was hoping my 1700-2000 SWAG in another thread was way off... but I'm thinking it's gonna be in the range.
 
Me in five months:

This new A series 27" is good.... but, it could really use an M1.

(i have no idea why though)
 
I'd say this M-ecosystem will be doomed in desktop space, if Apple does not include modularity to it.

There has to be a way to add more ram to a desktop machine. It would be outside the SoC, so it would be slower, but noneoftheless useful. There has been multiple levels of cache memory in computers for decades, so there's no reason that the same thing could be done with RAM.

Same thing goes with GPU. It's insane that you can't add GPU power to the computer and you'll just hace to use what's in SoC.

Last but not least: do not solder storage to mainboard, especially on desktop computer. Or at least, give option to have it not soldered.
 
AndreeOnline said:
The display is what I'm waiting for as well.

What we want is the 32" flavour of the MacBook Pro 16", though. Apple "only" needs to fuse 4 of those panels together, sync them up with hardware like they did their 5K retina in iMacs.

And then sell us this 7K HDR beauty for $2500. Take my money already. But it seems the 7K monitor is next year? Haven't had time to deep dive into all the rumours...

I'm afraid that if they go 27" 5K-ish, we will get old tech with sub par HDR. There is no way I can get a new stand alone display that doesn't do HDR at least on the MacBook Pro level (they are great).
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I'd want mine curved.
 
I don’t want to set myself up for disappointment but if this Mac Studio is real - a machine that literally sits as the alternative to the all-in-one iMac; it will surely be user upgradeable. I mean, they just embraced Self Service Repair 15 years after releasing the iPhone for goodness sakes.

Also, I highly doubt a single person is responsible for this monumental shift in design approach… but it’s hard to not point the finger at Sir Jony Ive given these changes are releasing 2 - 3 years after he left. HDMI and SD Slot came back for crying out loud! It sure seems like the Form side of the house lost a pivotal voice and Team Function is gaining lots of seats at the table. Almost every Apple announcement ushers in a long desired functional improvement and there’s a conspicuous lack of the word “thin”.

As an Apple user since the early 90’s, I’m probably the most excited I’ve been in the post-Jobs era.

As an Apple investor, I could see this depressing both revenue and profit by a marginal amount, but I’m unconcerned because I quite literally never plan to sell and I think this is a long-term positive, consumer friendly move.

As a citizen of this planet, all these actions are big steps in reducing e-waste and diminishing the general attitude of disposability towards electronics.
 
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Would be awesome if the Mac Studio could dual boot / switch into iOS and that the new Mac Studio Display also have touch with Apple Pen support ... maybe Apple Pen 3 ? and that the Mac Studio Display also work with iPad Pro as an external touch display ...
 
Gotfredsen said:
Would be awesome if the Mac Studio could dual boot / switch into iOS and that the new Mac Studio Display also have touch with Apple Pen support ... maybe Apple Pen 3 ? and that the Mac Studio Display also work with iPad Pro as an external touch display ...
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This sounds extremely crazy, considering Apple's latest strategy and the current rumors.
 
Juuro said:
This sounds extremely crazy, considering Apple's latest strategy and the current rumors.
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Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes ... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. ... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things. ... They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. :)
 
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