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Mac Studio and Studio Display Unboxing

Someone needs to make a widget or browser plugin to show on the video page that indicates whether the YouTuber uses useless word filler like "go ahead and", because I literally stop watching videos over speech ticks like that.
 
“Handles are good for… carrying”. And the faces when we get to hear the sound of unwrapping… sorry but this is just funny.

You do a great job though. Just having some fun!
 
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hugodrax said:
I never understood this whole Unboxing thing on social media. I do not watch them I do not see what knowledge is gained for the time. I would rather see some novel benchmarks like Xplane 11, compile times etc
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People hungry for attention have created the entire Facebook empire. Never underestimate an apparently fundamental need(?) of "look at me" and "look what I'm doing." It made Zuckerberg insanely rich in only a few years.

I unboxed with no pics or video, hooked it up with no YouTube show and put the new Ultra to work. I'm manually transferring lots of files to make the new one basically have much of what I used on the old iMac. No easy "migration assistant..." I'm doing the "from scratch" setup for a clean install.

So far the most noticeable improvement is almost no beach ball no matter what I'm doing. It does feel- as it should for $6K- very fast compared to the old iMac 27" work machine which was years old. Activity Monitor is funny to watch now that I have abundant RAM and far more "cores" than the 8 in the old iMac. Graphical usage meters are minimal compared to generally be loaded on the iMac.

One aggravating issue that has popped up is that a 2-drive RAID external keeps ejecting unexpectedly within a few minutes of being on. I've already tried swapping cable, disk first aid, and even hooking it to a hub USB jack instead of direct. Nothing is working. It seems fine and works well while actively using files on it but then the usual drive "sleep" process when not in use seems to not just sleep but eject. Already went into power save and tried unchecking "put hard drive to sleep when possible." No difference. It seems like when the drive itself "rests" the hard drive because nothing is requesting file access, that will trigger this unexpected ejection.

On the old iMac (not running Monterey) it was fine for years, with "put hard drives to sleep..." turned on. Could be coincidence and maybe the drive or box are conking but the variable change most notable is brand new super Mac.

I'm going to connect that drive to my MBpro with the same cable and let it sit for a while and see if it will do that on an old Mac. Based on long-term experience, I'm going to guess it will not. Monterey issue? I do see some references to this kind of thing in web searches.

The next move would be restart the Studio after file transfers are complete and see if that might get it working as expected with the external as the old iMac has for years. I can also try swapping the USB jack being used to see if maybe I got one with one bad jack (seems unlikely). The other USB jack (not thunderbolt) has an external hard drive attached to it for about 20 hours now, importing the old files from iMac- no issues at all... but also continuously active transferring files.

Last resort might be to try reformatting the RAID in Monterey and then copy my many files back on it and trying again but I'm hoping maybe a Studio restart will magically make it work with that external as the iMac did for years before it. It's already APFS and has been for at least 18 months or more... but maybe something in Monterey is not liking APFS formatted by a prior macOS version???

Anyone got any other suggestions?

Update: Gave the RAID external about an hour hooked to an Intel Mbpro running Catalina with the same cable. No unexpected ejection. Then, I ran disk utility first aid and it said all was fine. Bad Studio? Bad USB jack? Bad Monterey?
 
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theluggage said:
...more likely never unless Apple do a U-turn a few years down the line.
Looks like the "leakers" mistook the Studio Display and/or a future replacement for the Pro XDR display for iMacs.

Thing to remember is the top-spec 10-core iMac cost ($3200 + $400 for an upgrade to 32K) whereas. the 10-core Studio Max + Studio Display gives better performance for @$3600. The Studio Ultra + Studio Display at $5600 should probably be compared with the 18-core iMac Pro at $7400. If you're aiming at that level of performance, the Studio prices are pretty reasonable.

The "hole" left by the iMac isn't the "Pro" end, but the ~$2000 price bracket where getting a 5k display with the equivalent of a $1000 Mac Mini built in was something of a bargain. My guess is that pricing was contingent on the cost of 5k panels coming down over time as they got picked up by the mass market - but 5k turned out to be a niche resolution that only Mac users cared about, so I guess Apple is paying quite a lot for the relatively small quantities they and LG sell.
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iMac Pro is dead. If 120hz is legit , possibly smaller XDR, but probably iMac Pro replacement.
Don’t see DSC that appealing to Apple, they would rather wait for TB bandwidth. Has to be all in one, but can’t be Pro designation, iMac Studio fits with current naming scheme.
 
I hesitate to ask this, but — on YouTuber said the Studio Display contained a cleaning cloth. I didn’t see one in my box. Does anyone know where to find it?
 
theluggage said:
The "hole" left by the iMac isn't the "Pro" end, but the ~$2000 price bracket where getting a 5k display with the equivalent of a $1000 Mac Mini built in was something of a bargain. My guess is that pricing was contingent on the cost of 5k panels coming down over time as they got picked up by the mass market - but 5k turned out to be a niche resolution that only Mac users cared about, so I guess Apple is paying quite a lot for the relatively small quantities they and LG sell.
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That $2000 price point would have been $2500 if the 5K iMac kept up with inflation. Or higher, for people who bought upgraded configurations.

I expected 5K displays to follow the same curve as 4K displays, too, so I can’t blame Apple for guessing wrong about it.

The supply chain problems may even have pushed the cost of 5K displays up in the past two years.
 
So we do expect a M2 Max/Ultra in next year’s Mac Studio?

I don’t need a new Mac right this second, but I’m just curious.
 
The motherboard has TWO M.2 slots for SSDs. So if you are willing to open up your brand new Studio, you could add more storage.
 
I really don’t get why everyone on other reviews are so happy with this SD slot. I love the one in my 2013 iMac even if it was on the back, however, a pro photographer needs a CFExpress type B slot. I would probably hardly ever use the SD slot.
 
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hugodrax said:
I never understood this whole Unboxing thing on social media. I do not watch them I do not see what knowledge is gained for the time. I would rather see some novel benchmarks like Xplane 11, compile times etc
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I hear you. I watch 1 unboxing video and I'm done. I think part of it is the trend of building up the hype. Perhaps for followers of channels, they get their "hype kick" from watching unbox videos from their channel subscriptions?
 
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Nope. These seems to be 2 slots for Apple specific "dumb" storage cards. Not M.2 and not very useful unless Apple sells those as parts (and hasn't locked down the capacity in the firmware).
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In the Max Tech video, it does look like one slot is being used, and one is empty, so who knows… There are lots of tech wiz out there who might figure it out.

Let’s see when iFixit tears it down.
 
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einsteinbqat said:
In the Max Tech video, it does look like one slot is being used, and one is empty, so who knows…
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Wasn't that a lower storage tier config? Would make sense for Apple to split of 8TB (and maybe 4TB too) configs into 2 modules as they are quite a bit smaller than the usual M.2s of that capacity.
 
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Bug-Creator said:
Wasn't that a lower storage tier config? Would make sense for Apple to split of 8TB (and maybe 4TB too) configs into 2 modules as they are quite a bit smaller than the usual M.2s of that capacity.
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That’s what I thought, too. iFixit should make a teardown soon enough. We’ll know. Here’s hoping ?
 
An integrated cable. That sucks.

It’s probably not a show stopper if I opted to go this route but integrated power cables as a general rule really annoy me. I can’t think of any particular advantage to them at all.
 
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