Mac Pro oh sorry sorry studio uh mini no
Studio definitely Studio that's what it says right there Mac Studio this is
something that's been a long time coming people have been anticipating a Mac Pro
Mini for quite some time now and well
this is it it's even got like this little Pro style handle here like the
Mac Pro and the pro display xdr do what
is well I've had a delivery these are
these are the peripherals that go with it I'll talk about these later they cost a lot they cost a lot of
money but they're black and silver the
Mac Studio is the first Mac that I know of that has front panel like actually
front panel IO like the Mac Pro had top
IO that I guess technically would count but like this is the first like desktop
desktop Mac that's meant to sit on your desk honestly it it's amazing that Apple
held out this long because the SD card
slot is something that the the Mac Mini really should have had for so long like
Why didn't it have an SD card slot of course we're still uh on the USB type-c
bandwagon these are USB hm are they four
no they just say type-c so I think these are the USB 3 point whatever uh on the
ultra version of this design these are
Thunderbolt ports what is this packaging look at look at how this like apple what
is this why why does it have Wings anyway enough complaining about the
packaging let's continue oh it's one of these things so
you just take this here you take get real good grip on
it you don't have to do that
it's
stop all right let's get it out of here this this box okay props to Apple this
is like the most one of the most complex cardboard boxes I've seen in a while I'm
being asked to do this gracefully let's see if I can do that uh
okay so it doesn't come that way even though it's creased this way see look at
this it's creased in a really weird way what is Apple's packaging up
to
oo and it just Falls
away that is chalky it's it's actually wow it
actually is like a Mac Mini but bigger so we've got the Mac Mini or Mac
Mini oh man it's going to take a while to get out of that habit so we got the
Mac Studio we've already seen pretty much everything that there is to see um
yep it's a big hunk of aluminum it's heavy it's got the SD card slots got the
front us USB type-c got the rear
Thunderbolt gigb Ethernet 10 GB Ethernet sorry Mickey Mouse USB type a HDMI and
the headphone Port um I am led to to
believe that it is possible to get this off I'm not quite sure how maybe I'll
look into that later first we need a way
to actually interact with this thing thankfully we have the official
peripherals all get in here magic
Trackpad magic keyboard do we have the Magic Mouse too yeah we do so these are
environmentally friendly packaged this is not it's got a
plastic condom on it thought we were over this apple you'll be delighted to
know they give you actually a nice um
braided lightning cable to type c this
is how you charge your mouse how much does this mouse cost jonno 100 bucks so
your $100 mouse that um is actually an
ergonomic nightmare like I cramp up hard trying to use these things that's how
you charge it let's get the trackpad out next the
trackpad oh yeah I know $149 for the black trackpad how much is
the regular trackpad now to be clear this does have the force touch feature
so like it's got the haptic feedback so it's $20 more for a black trackpad like
apple what are you doing but yeah like they could have made this more ergonomic
with like a proper cable attachment point they could have made this bigger
or something to justify that extra price you know Studio ofy it right and I'm I
originally thought that this was unique to the new generation of peripherals as
well soz I didn't think they had the the full size keyboard but apparently they
do this is $200 I could break this over my knee I
wouldn't actually I wouldn't even have to look how much this flexes this is it sucks because Apple
has some cool technology in their keyboard like touch ID right here it's
nice but it's not very rigid and also
why why do we have these can we have like a like an Apple
keyboard please like an actual like none none of the magic none of the magic just
just give me the give me the Apple see I have respect for the things that Apple
has done in the past that I see them
capitalizing on now with products that are honestly not very good now that
being said um I'm sure there are people who love this especially the lowprofile
design I'm sure there are people who appreciate the fact that it feels the
same as their MacBook or whatever but this is an ergonomic nightmare just like
this is because it's so flat that
basically in order to actually type on it you have to basically be mashing your
desk H this wasn't supposed to be a review of this but I I just hate this so
much and it doesn't even have any tilt or anything it's just the pads there you
there you go yeah so Mac Studio let's see if we can take this thing apart but
before that this uh that's the robots they're
watching me solve something for dbrand okay so like what this oh so this is
actually like is this supposed to be like an easy mode rub Rubik's Cube and
I'm supposed to fail at it or something cuz that's kind of what's Happening ah
man this okay this is making my brain hurt talking points while he's
struggling real leather available now for all your not just cables cubes sorry
cubes wow I am just fried thank you dbrand feels nice sure is sure does yeah
you're supposed to visit dbrand.com shortlines he is short I'm not uh enter
the code 5 foot one 5 foot one to get 15% off unless the
video has been up for more than 15 minutes in which case the deal is over
what maybe two people will ever get that
discount code D BR basically you using
me as the Implement for the this is what
I had to do today all right jonno what do you say we turn this on no in the
immortal words of Dave Jones from eev blog don't turn it on take it
apart ah this is the softest aluminum in
the world this thing just like being
pushed this way to pry it open has
mashed the aluminum good God I am
assuming that this is in with Clips
Perhaps it is all friction fit in which case I need to go around and I don't
want to do that really not with these
there's no screws is there or I don't think so unless there's screws under
this oh I hate this oh I hate this what
happened okay okay enough of it's come off now I can just peel
it there is there is no excuse for why
these screws had to be hidden under this
aesthetic no clean design no this is
unacceptable and in order to get into this this whole thing needs to be just
destroyed and in order to replace it you just get another one of these basically
well there's the internals I'm not going to like completely disassemble this
thing I just want to see how far we can go look there's screws hidden under this
little black tab as if anybody is ever going to see this this is probably
because they're live these are the power supply screws these are going right down
into metal that is conducting
electricity why would you do this there's your power supply that's I think
380 WTS if I'm not mistaken it's pretty small they glued the crap out of it
what's all this silicone crap I guess it's to keep the capacitors from moving
but yeah these here uh these here contacts screws go through those they uh
they touch these contacts down here that's where the power goes have fun all
right I don't know how much further I want to go uh cuz it doesn't look like
it's trivial to get much further they've built this thing in
layers wait where are there in antenna points down there when this is the is
that the hang on I need to get this out
that is storage it has replaceable
storage I'm pretty sure that's storage it's like not really marked what these
chips are but I'm pretty sure they're an N flash it's possible if not likely that
you'll be able to get replacement ssds for this that are potentially bigger
faster more reliable
wait there's a second storage slot so
there's one over here and there's one right here they're both the same slot
can I just point out how crap it is that we are expected to be impressed by that
yeah it is pretty crap oh you know what I could probably take this Frame off I
don't know how much further I want to I keep saying that I don't know how much further I want to go but I kind of do
want to keep going I just want to get this cage off so I can see underneath it
I'm not going to pull the cool off I'm not going to pull the main board out or
anything like that I just want to see unobstructed the view of the board pull
the cooler off
the mostly what I wanted to do was uh
have a look inside and see what the main board looks like yeah let's just let's
not take it off yeah I'm not going to go any further than this I just wanted to
get this plate out of the way um even
though Jake's like ah do it or no balls yeah I'll do it after we've done our
thermal testing because this one actually has a different cooler I think
than the M1 Ultra version that's aluminum versus copper uh for today
it'll just have to end here one thing I'm noticing as I'm kind of reassembling
it a little bit here is that the I/O is actually very very modular like all of
these are in boards and they're in their solid so it's actually pretty unlikely
that you're going to ever act like end up breaking anything here and if you do
it is replaceable so maybe not a repairability score of
like this was actually a little bit more trivial to get into than I expected but
it does require you to that power supply is dangerous a f the uninitiated yeah
check this out that's how it goes in and that's how it connects you just you just
screwed screw it down yep that's that's exactly how the uh the iMac Pro died
that's that's the reason cuz they just that's their connection line voltage oh
no that's no that's not line voltage 12 Vol or something yeah 12
Vol okay still still enough like current to really mess up your day yeah I wasn't
expecting to get interrupted uh I was going to close it out so yeah line is
go this real cool huh I don't know why
that was Elvis but you know it's so salty right now I don't know why I'm
okay I know why I'm salty this was way too like I mean I guess I should have my
very first instinct was that there were screws under this thing but I was like
no they couldn't possibly because that would require them to actually you know
break it to get back in but apparently that's what Apple does now this killed
you emotionally a little bit but you know what doesn't kill me emotionally
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