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Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Without having a teardown available, and more importantly, without having actually manually manipulated it, I am ready to say the Studio is poor design. I could be completely wrong, but it appears from the images of the back that the design is simply this: a Mac Mini on the bottom with storage, I/O & PSU, below a processor layer with a massive heatsink, which is likely the only thing taking up any space behind the top grill. The problem with the design is that the M1 Ultra version weighs 8lbs., and most that weight is going to be in the bottom, making Studio unwieldy, and I expect placement of this little bottom-heavy box that weighs nearly as much as a gallon of water is going to be the source of a number of wrist injuries, and I think it is safe to say also, there will naturally be some blunt force injuries to a number of hands and fingers, some with ugly lacerations. Most of this could have been avoided with some new cutting edge technology colloquially known as putting a doggone handle on the top that was solidly loaded into the more massive layer on the bottom. I think the design ethic here is similar to strapping a 350 to a gocart. Putting a handle on something that weighs 8lbs. is so ordinary and necessary and obvious, and because Studio lacks it, I honestly do not care what's inside it. Even if manipulation is only going to occur once or a small handful of times, physically it is going to function like junk, and that just bugs me too much. I have too much junk as it is. I'd take 2 budget M1 Minis and an Intel Mini over a maxed out Studio every time. I'm absolutely serious, a handle would have changed everything.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Don’t feed the “but I can build a pc for less” crowd. They can’t see the apples to oranges comparison they’re making: a Mac is not a PC. They have different use-cases and run different software.

The end users doesn't care about the reasons, the internal debates at apple that lead to them making a computer that's slower and more expensive, or what marketing spin they put on it . Having a clever reason to justify how it was intentionally designed to be slower doesn't change the fact that it's slower. Apple is great at other things and you do get other benefits when you buy an Apple computer, the performance/do…

> Apple is great at other things and you do get other benefits when you buy an Apple computer, the performance/dollar just isn't one of them for desktop. Even for laptop, the M1 was the first time they were completive on that metric.

That's a narrative which I think has been proven to be not true for quite some time? If you look at the prices of Windows ultrabooks from brand names, they have been at the same level as Mac laptops for many, many years.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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The complete lack of what HDMI port it uses is indeed pretty bizarre, but why would it come with a keyboard and mouse? The people who buy this already have those, or know which ones they need far better than Apple does, and will buy the exactly models they want on their own.

> The complete lack of what HDMI port it uses is indeed pretty bizarre Isn't "Support for one display with up to 4K resolution at 60Hz" as stated on their specs page[1] pretty clear? It's an HDMI 2.0 port and I think mentioning the supported resolution and refresh rate is more helpful to customers than the HDMI spec version. [1] https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/specs/

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Re: Apple Mac Studio

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This. I don’t care if a laptop is a tad thicker, or the aesthetics would allow the device to sit in a museum - Ive helped make them desireable objects, the iPhone provided the scale and momentum and Apple silicon in macs at last allows for focus on actual usability. This set of kit will pave the way for a revolution in how we think about computing. Indeed, Bravo!

Revolution? What revolution? NN's for everything? Something else?

You will see.
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