Apple Mac Studio

#1

Post by 0xedb » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:59 PM UTC

Re: Apple Mac Studio

#2

Post by cube2222 » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 7:06 PM UTC

Looks like all the people saying "just start fusing those M1 CPU's into bigger ones" were right, that's basically what they did for the top of the line new M1 CPU (fused two M1 Max'es together).

And since the presenter mentioned the Mac Pro would come on another day, I wonder if they'll just do 4x M1 Max for that.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

#3

Post by mynameisvlad » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 7:08 PM UTC

I think from a design perspective, this is the most disappointing Apple release so far. It's just way too tall, imo. There's a lot of empty space on the front which just seems odd.

I'm not exactly sure what they could've done to keep the Mac Mini footprint, but this ain't it.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

#4

Post by hughrr » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 7:08 PM UTC

This is actually really cheap. Maxed out at £7999 is less than half the price of an HP Z with similar numbers configured in which it probably can’t even get near the mac.

And it doesn’t need $1000 wheels.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

#5

Post by 0x0 » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 7:09 PM UTC

So an M1 max is not... max anymore (>_<)

Re: Apple Mac Studio

#6

Post by rovr138 » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 7:09 PM UTC

hughrr wrote: post #4

This is actually really cheap. Maxed out at £7999 is less than half the price of an HP Z with similar numbers configured in which it probably can’t even get near the mac. And it doesn’t need $1000 wheels.

$5,799 for:

* 20 core cpu

* 64 core gpu

* 32 core neural engine

* 128GB of ram

* 1TB SSD

fully maxed out, 8TB SSD

Re: Apple Mac Studio

#7

Post by minimaxir » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 7:09 PM UTC

The Mac Studio's HDMI doesn't support 120Hz out (so likely HDMI 2.0?) and it also doesn't come with a keyboard and mouse.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

#8

Post by kccoder » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 7:09 PM UTC

Apple said that Max's CPU is up to 2.5x faster and the Ultra's CPU is up to 3.8x faster than whatever intel CPU is in the iMac Pro, so you're getting about 52% more CPU performance with Ultra's doubling in CPU cores vs the Max, so definitely feeling some linear scaling limitations with the interconnect.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

#9

Post by turndown » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 7:10 PM UTC

I was kind of disappointed as I expected this to be the keyboard thing that was leaked to the news a bit ago; seemed to fit just right with their arguments of portability, connectivity, modularity.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

#10

Post by lwkl » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 7:10 PM UTC

Great they avoided $1000 stand memes by offering a more reasonable $400 stand.

To be more serious looks like a pretty good product that fits well into offices. I stopped working in IT in 2018 but back then SFF was all the rage and a powerful workstation with a smaller form factor will probably be attractive to a lot of customers.