Basically, Apple took the CAD design of the Mac mini, extruded it up a couple of inches, and called it a day. There's not a lot to say about the design or build quality of the Mac Studio.
The Mac Studio looks like a tall Mac mini with some front I/O. But it's worth keeping the extra costs in mind if you're deciding between the Mac Studio and an equivalent MacBook Pro. And since most photo and video editors already have an external display, mouse and keyboard at home, this gets you Apple's most powerful components without charging you for peripherals you already own. Pound for pound, Apple has packed more performance into this little device than any mini-ITX computer you could hope to build at home. None of this means the Mac Studio isn't worth it. If you add up the cost of all the products Apple sent us for this review – the Mac Studio, a keyboard, a mouse, a trackpad, and the base-model Studio Display – the cost of our setup goes from $3,200 to a much steeper $5,250. Bump that Mac Studio up to an M1 Ultra and you could spend another $1,200 - $3,000 depending on the variant. If you add up the cost of all the products Apple sent us for this review – the Mac Studio, a full-sized Magic Keyboard, a Magic Mouse, a Magic Trackpad, and the base-model Studio Display – the cost of our review unit goes from $3,200 to a much steeper $5,250. The Mac Studio doesn't come with a keyboard or mouse, and if you don't have a monitor at home, you'll need one of those too. When you consider that a 16-inch MacBook Pro with identical specs will set you back $4,300, that sounds like a pretty good deal, but it depends on whether or not you already have high quality peripherals at home. The version we're testing today is an M1 Max variant with a 32-core GPU, 64GB of RAM, and 2TB of storage, which brings the total price up to $3,200.
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If you keep storage the same and just upgrade the CPU, GPU, and/or RAM, you can expect to pay anywhere from $2,200 to $5,800 depending on how much power you want to squeeze out of this tiny little computer:
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We've listed four potential configurations below to give you a sense of the full range of specs (and price points) available in this same 3.5L aluminum box. The M1 Max variant can be configured with either 24 or 32 GPU cores, 32 or 64GB of RAM, and between 512GB and 8TB of storage the M1 Ultra comes with either 48 or 64 GPU cores, 64 or 128GB of RAM, and between 1TB and 8TB of storage. The Mac Studio comes in two main flavors, M1 Max or M1 Ultra, each with a few possible configurations. Overall, I'm very impressed by what Apple has achieved.ĭesign, build and usability| Performance benchmarks | Performance takeaways | ConclusionĪ full "Mac Studio" setup per Apple: the Mac Studio ($3,200), Studio Display ($1,600), a Magic Keyboard ($200), a Magic Trackpad ($150), and a Magic Mouse ($100). A couple of days after last week's announcement a Mac Studio and Studio Display made its way to the DPReview offices for review, and I've been frantically testing this little computer ever since. It's powerful, it's tiny, it's silent, and if you've already got a high-quality monitor, keyboard, and mouse at home, it's also an incredible deal compared to a similarly specced 14- or 16-inch MacBook Pro. But even if you don't spend $5,800+ on the maximum spec, this computer is the Mac desktop creatives have been hoping Apple would release for a very long time. Released alongside the M1 Ultra Apple Silicon SOC that sports 20 CPU cores, up to 64 GPU cores, and up to 128GB of RAM, the Mac Studio is capable of delivering more performance than all but the most expensive Mac Pro configurations. It's about three times thicker and several times more powerful than the Mac mini, and it's called the Mac Studio. The new Mac Studio is the mid-range standalone desktop computer that many Apple users have been asking for.Īfter many months of speculation and some very accurate leaks, Apple finally unveiled the "professional Mac Mini" that many of us have been waiting for.
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