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Pulled the trigger today on a Mac Studio
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Apparently that’s changing again and again… more news this morning is the Saturday morning news is being reneged on.
Well my gear is out for delivery. I am awaiting it as I type. I am deciding how to rearrange my setups.
2 weeks after ordering mine is still in "Processing". Starting to consider cancelling and just getting an in-stock model from the Apple store.
How is yours??
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Don't do that - be patient for the specs you really want!
It is great. I had to run a new eth cable to it. But it gives me 1.25 gb speed on up and downloads. Since I am using optimum 1gb and consistently getting the extra net speeds. I have it set to. 4k samsung tv images are nice.....and the verdict is?
It is fast fast fast.
I'm considering the Mac Studio M4 Max with 64GB and 2 TB SSD. But concerned about possible noise. Not so much fan noise but the high-pitched whine that was reported for earlier versions.
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Everything I've read about coil whine (which is the name people are giving to the noise you're referring to) is that it seems to be hit or miss. I haven't seen any form of rhyme or reason as to why people experience (or not) the noise.
My recommendation would be to purchase the Studio and, if you hear noise, exchange it.
My M1 Max Mac Studio had the coil whine issue and had to put up with it until I traded it in for the M3 Ultra Mac Studio earlier this year. Zero coil whine issues with the M3 Ultra. Like m1maverick said, best to purchase and if you hear it, trade it back in for another one. You'll likely know it has coil whine when you hear it.
I believe it was the M1 Mac Studio specifically that people complained about. I bought a Mac Mini M2Pro and stopped following the issue. Now it’s time to upgrade and hesitating between a Mac Studio M4 Max or another Mac Mini M4Pro. Money wise it wouldn’t make a lot of difference but a whining Mac would drive me nuts.
Have there been reports about the new Mac Studios whining?
happy to say my M4 Max is whisper quiet, I had not seen this discussion about coil whine, which may have given me pause. As it stands, this M4 Max has been a great purchase for me.
I've not heard about the issues for a long time. There's a long thread on this with the M1 Studios and I think that some of the early M2 Studios had them but things died down so I assumed that Apple resolved the problem in the M2 timeframe.
I bought mine from the local store and didn't have the problem but some here returned multiple units and still had the problem.
There are a number of YouTube videos showing the problem.
100% agree. Mine is absolutely silent. I've never heard the fans, even when going full tilt on compute.
Its been a while since I've said this, but the Studio is the best computer I've owned. That title was last held by my 2012 MBP - but it has since been dethroned
Its been a while since I've said this, but the Studio is the best computer I've owned. That title was last held by my 2012 MBP - but it has since been dethroned
That's why I suggested it in the Alternatives forum. I upgraded from my M1 mini to the M1 Max Studio and all of the restrictions of the mini went away. I really didn't like how the Studio looks but it has grown on me.
You got me thinking, to be sure. My knee jerk reaction was too much computer for a price I didn't want to spend. I started off on this journey, looking to spend 450 for a base level Mac Mini. The old adage, buy once cry once comes to mind. I bought twice, but I was able to return the Mac Mini and just go all in.
Overall, though this is been a great addition its whisper quiet, dead fast and for non-intensive tasks, the CPU temps are in the mid 30s.
Yeah, I'm there with you. The only other two I've owned that I would put in the same bullet-proof class would be the blueberry PowerMac G3 and the original Mac Pro (1,1). Both of those machines I was able to use for ages before I felt they were lagging.Its been a while since I've said this, but the Studio is the best computer I've owned. That title was last held by my 2012 MBP - but it has since been dethroned
I’ve not heard this “coil whine” thing I’ve read about, on either my M4 Max Studio or M4 Pro MBP. I put it down to being too old to hear such things. There are lots of noises I do hear that really aggravate me - but nothing from the Mac. Sometimes I’ll push either the Studio or MBP with LLM and, after a while, I’ll be wondering “what’s that faint whooshing sound?” - before I have to remind myself that these things have fans in them.
That’s a lot like me. For years I’ve “craved a Mac” - to see what it's like in the non-Windows world - and I’d often eyed the cheapest device going. I never got one because I had too much work-critical stuff on Windows and to replace everything would have cost more than the Mac, so I could never justify even the base price.
When my finances changed, and I no longer relied on computer-work, I said “Now I’ll get a Mac - but I’ll get the Mac Air. £1000 is a *lot* of money, but I’m going to get one …”. I didn’t because the lack of computer-work was both a blessing (I had no need to replace software/hardware any more) and a curse (I no longer had a need for much of a computer either).
Eventually I decided I’d “clean house” and start fresh with Mac.
I still eyed that MacBook Air. But then, the Apple-temptation kicked in with the upgrades. So I switched allegiance to a MacBook Pro. But, still tempted, I couldn’t go with the base model. £2,500 later, I had *my* Mac. What happened to the £1,000 device? Or the base model cheapest option Mac mini? I can’t answer that!
It didn’t take long before the MBP tempted me back to my interest in “doing stuff on computers”, and an introduction to LLM work had me looking for more RAM. I said to myself “If the M4 Max Studio comes out with 128GB RAM, I’m having it”. Well, it did come out - about £600 more than I'd budgeted - but it was *so* worth it.
I’m content with my Mac set-up now, and my old Windows machines are consigned to just being turned on occasionally to charge the batteries and check for updates. I don’t miss them.
If I turn up the volume on my iPad, I definitely hear a whine there. So glad it’s not present on my Macs (or, if it is, my ears are too bad to hear it!).
I think that the vast majority of Studios didn't have this problem. Of course everyone here who did have it reported it. I'm sure that Apple would have noted the return rate to decide on putting in the effort to investigate and fix it if the return rate were high enough.
Mine is silent as well from 2.5 feet away.