I was only responding to you suggesting its time to upgrade “your” 2020 iMac. Perhaps I mis read.
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I can see an ARM Mac Pro using proprietary expansion cards. The question is if they will actually do it. My guess is no, since they want everything to be SoCs. They make more money selling new machines instead of parts for a machine.
I never claimed I owned a 2020 iMac. I pointed out how long ago the last 27" was.
I get many here replace their Macs every spec bump but many of us want to keep them until after the final Security Update. Then upgrade to the next Mac released.
Does it run Logic Pro X? No, it doesn't.
Also, my quality of life it too valuable to use that sh*tshow called Windows.
But I thought there wasn’t going to be a new Mac Studio because it would be “too similar to the Mac Pro”. 
That was a dumb rumor that I never believed. Even if a new Mac Pro were also coming, they’re not going to wait on updating a current Mac because it’s “too similar” to a new release.
That was a dumb rumor that I never believed. Even if a new Mac Pro were also coming, they’re not going to wait on updating a current Mac because it’s “too similar” to a new release.
I have a Mac Studio Ultra that I bought while waiting for a new Mac Pro model. It has far surpassed my expectations.
When an M3 Mac Studio or Mac Pro is released I'll upgrade... maybe.
When an M3 Mac Studio or Mac Pro is released I'll upgrade... maybe.
kWh in the US is $0.180 at $15/hr min wage.
Where I am from it is $0.173 at $1.50/hr min wage.
No, even that is not correct. It's about the tasks at hand. Where Apple is weak is 3D. That's it. There are tons of other tasks GPUs are used for in video editing, image editing, etc. In those tasks the current AS GPUs do *extremely* well, and match the top of the line Nvidia GPUs. I know this because I own and use both; the Nvidia GPUs I have are dedicated to 3D rendering because they work very well there but when I benchmark them against the Apple Silicon Macs, they are at best equal and in some tasks beaten out by the AS GPU. This is in no small part to the large volume of high speed memory that the AS SoC architecture affords, but regardless, the day to day performance in applications I use to pay the bills is what matters.
It will be *very* interesting to see what happens when we get hardware RT in the M3 generation. That said, there's a shift to AI-based tasks now and while the Nvidia tensor cores do well here, some of the applications I have that are optimized to use Apples Neural Engine cores crush the top of the line Nvidia cards in terms of performance. That whole area is a space to watch as we see more and more things move in that direction.
I'll say this though: I wonder has Epic Games written the Unreal Engine 5.2 to natively support the multiple GPU setup of the Apple M-Series SoC. Unreal Engine 5.2 running in native mode on the M1 Max/Ultra and soon M2 Max/Ultra could result in some pretty astonishing graphics, in my opinion, which could make the Mac Studio a potentially great gaming platform.
It's coil whine, not fan noise. I have three; one of them has it, the others do not.
It's inevitable that upgraded units will happen and do happen. After using a maxed 2014 iMac for 8 years I bit the bullet in November to buy a Max but still feel pissed that there will be a newer model announced within a week. I think more so because of the memory spec – 64gb is rubbish, 128gb is too expensive. 96mb would be great but the price will be a put off. You can't win, you just waste money...
Apple won’t even know what ‘the whistling problem is’ as long as they’re still selling units.
I can only hope that Apple will also release the Mac Studio with the M3 chip next year. I have the M1 and I am no interested in an upgrade to a M2. It would be a pity if they only release the Mac Pro M3.
Ahh, well then Apple must have fired all of their power engineers then.
I agree, given the MM case is the same as back in the day of a complete logic board with user-serviceable RAM, as well as having enough room for 2 HDDs or 1 HDD/1OD - the current setup means there's extra room for better cooling, but a lot of empty room as well.
The Studio is an odd one because there is a massive heatsink and fan that take up over half the volume (mostly for the M1 Ultra I guess), but otherwise it's barely more practical than the MM.
The Studio is an odd one because there is a massive heatsink and fan that take up over half the volume (mostly for the M1 Ultra I guess), but otherwise it's barely more practical than the MM.
That's why Gurman mostly avoids offering his opinions far out from events, but Bloomberg is probably getting tired of paying him to only report on stuff that is corroborated by 3 other sources, 2 days before they're announced (which is all he ever does).
Macrumors could just as easily make stuff up months in advance, and then wait until 2 days before a product announcement to post what others have already posted...just like Gurman does.
Mark said no new Mac Studiio not long ago and now he says new Studio coming. talks out of his ass but so many websites reports on his BS.
I think worst case we get an m3max studio only.
Best case max/ultra m3 studio. Ultra/extreme m3 pro.
Still loving my Mac Studio. My favorite desktop Mac to date. Lots of ports, use any monitor I want. Win win
Unless you need to pay astronomical amounts of money for the latest and greatest performance (ie a little bit better than the M1 Pro/Ultra) most would be better served picking up a discounted M1 Studio when the new ones come out unless they have something genuinely you absolutely need.
maybe buried by now, it would be tricky to market their other products if they'd have to acknowledge the performance of discrete graphics cards