you might not like it but this is what Peak Performance looks like and it is
chunky yeah kind of reminds me of a stubby G4 Cube the Mac Studio and
matching Studio display are the two latest announcements out of apple and of
everything they announced today they're easily the most exciting both powered by
Apple silicon they're set to usher in a new era of performance for Apple
enthusiasts but the way Apple's gone about this
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the new Mac Studio is in every way what
we all feared the Mac Pro would become when Apple started the transition to
Apple silicon an entirely unexpandable design with fully solder components and
a Mac Mini enclosure they decided to make a little taller than usual cooled
by two beefy fans that pull air up through the bottom of the chassis and
out through the rear Grill something Apple says is nearly silent there's
actually a lot going for this design for starters you get 10 gigabit Ethernet as
standard thank you Apple now the rest of the rear i o is
rearranged but looks basically the same as the Intel Mac Mini with a high
impedance pro audio output that I suspect is the same as on the new
Macbook Pros turn it around however and you'll see that Apple has finally
acquiesced and added front-facing connectors two USB type-c 10 gigabit
ports and an SDXC reader while support
for the brand new SD Express format would have been nice to see as a future
proofing measure what we're getting tracks with the
larger MacBook Pros if you pick up an M1 Ultra equipped Mac
Studio those type c ports up front turn into Thunderbolt ports wait
M1 Ultra cow turns out Apple's been holding out
on us and their M1 Max chips had an unused interconnect called Ultra Fusion
that allows for a chiplet style connection between two M1 Maxes to make
up an M1 Ultra the effective result is a
single SOC as far as software is concerned and gives a metric bug load of
CPU and GPU cores double the already very impressive media engine on the M1
Max and twice the maximum memory capacity at 800 gigabytes per second
that is faster memory than the gddr6x
that is used on NVIDIA's RTX 3080 and 3090.
that is pretty amazing and even more
amazing is the memory itself isn't even clocked faster there's just that many
more channels to work with if you believe what Apple has to say the M1
Ultra is up to 60 faster than the Mac Pro equipped with 28 Xeon W cores and 80
faster than that machine's fastest GPU the Radeon w6900x
they still sell those by the way something about those claims though this
doesn't really pass the sniff test part of that claim is that it's also 90
faster than a 16 core desktop CPU while
drawing 100 Watts less power you might think that's referring to the only
current 16 core desktop CPU the ryzen 9 5950x but in fact they are talking about
the core I9 12900k which is an 8 plus 8
core CPU with performance and efficiency cores much like apple silicon
what's more max turbo power on the 12900k is 241 Watts so we can surmise
based on Apple's own data that the M1 Ultra draws around 140 Watts which is
still a lot of Watts the 12900k is TDP at base clock is 125 watts and I can
guarantee you M1 Ultra doesn't draw just 25 watts
but that's the CPU 128 gigs of unified
memory offers an unprecedented amount of potential vram to the GPU Apple's right
in that the biggest workstation card on the market right now the RTX a6000 caps
out at a meager 48 gigs sure you can
connect multiple a6000s together via Envy link but having that much memory in
a single package is a significant feather in Apple's cap they're also
making some interesting claims about beating the highest end discrete GPU
while also using 200 Watts less power though the footnote says they're talking
about the RTX 3090 using select industry standard benchmarks so take from that
what you will I expect performance will be decent either way but it's very
possible this specific claim leans on the media engine as Apple has done in
the past and they're not talking about raw compute performance I'd like to be
wrong though speaking of the doubled up media engine is now capable of running 18
simultaneous 8K prores 422 streams so it
really does sound like an ideal workstation for most professionals
especially as software support comes online like with blender 3.1 you'll be
able to make use of it too up to four Pro display xtrs and a 4K HDMI device
simultaneously that is more battle stations certainly more pixels than
Apple has ever officially supported internal storage doesn't look expandable
however so you'll need to add over two thousand dollars
two thousand dollars for eight terabytes if you don't want external storage a
fact made worse by recent Revelations that Apple's SSD performance isn't as
good as they claim it is they're cheating and in the process putting data
at risk if an unexpected shutdown occurs the onboard battery in a Macbook makes
this a non-issue but on a stationary machine plugged into wall power
well make sure that you combine the Mac Studio with a battery backup that'll add
to the already high price tag for the M1 Ultra variant but if you take Apple at
their word it's the most powerful machine you can buy for the money get
subscribed because we are definitely putting that claim to the test
you might also want to combine the Mac Studio with a new studio display Apple
certainly wants you to the panel itself seems suspiciously
similar to the existing LG ultrafine 5K with a slight bump in Peak brightness
and 10 gig type c ports instead of 5 gig it even has similar power delivery
capabilities to the recent models so it seems like a bit of a cop-out
until you get under the hood the from
ltdstore.com hey got it in there what
makes the studio display special aside from the aluminum and glass construction
is the a13 bionic chip powering a plethora of onboard goodies it's got a
very similar speaker array on paper to the 24 inch M1 iMac complete with
spatial audio a three mic array presumably with noise suppression and an
integrated 12 megapixel FaceTime camera capable of Center Stage which means you
can finally use center stage on a Mac like the one place it makes a lot of
sense not to mention the a13 provides
the image signal processing we've come to expect from Apple silicon that means
that the Mac itself doesn't need to do any of the work freeing up the neural
engine for other tasks it even makes these AI features usable on Intel Max as
old as 2016. now the studio display xdr
comes with three mounting options a 30 degree tilt adjustable stand a pro
display xdr like stand except without rotation support and an ugly vase amount
although it looks like you need to choose what you want out of the factory
because unlike the produce xdr there
isn't a user accessible mounting mechanism on the display itself
thankfully the Vasa Mount and tilt adjustable stand are options that don't
add to the already lofty 1599 price tag but the Tilt and height adjustable stand
costs an extra 400 bucks I guess rotation is a 600 value now it's worth
mentioning that the ultrafine 5K is 300 cheaper and it's already priced 300
higher than the old Thunderbolt displays were I can't win them all I guess but
hey you've got the option of buying color matched silver and black
peripherals so it's not all about uh whatever the rest
of the event was pretty unimpressive we got a spec bump for the iPad Air now
powered by the M1 SOC with eight gigs of RAM and rocking a 12 megapixel front
camera with Center Stage it's got 5G support now and it comes in
new colors I don't really know what else to say here they're comparing it to a
similarly priced laptop and while I don't disagree that for a lay person
it's probably a better experience it's really not the same thing unless and
until they bring macOS to the iPad which they stubbornly refuse to do the
other specs as much as they talked about them are the same with the exception of
the type C Port which is now 10 gigabits per second rather than five it's a
little less disappointing than the iPhone SE and I know that's going to be
a hot take but hear me out price is going up and all we're getting is the
a15 bionic SOC a few hours better battery life ceramic shield and 5G the
rest is exactly the same right down to the iPhone 8 and started chassis now to
be clear I wasn't expecting Apple to reinvent the wheel here I understand
that things are getting more expensive and I'm glad this form factor is still
available but it would have been nice to see magsafe come to the SE by Apple's own
admission this is going to be many people's first foray into iPhone and
magsafe is becoming a big part of the ecosystem
I might be giving Apple a harder time over this than I should be but I I feel
it's a missed opportunity particularly given how long SE models have
traditionally stayed in market and that
is basically all they talked about outside of baseball and Apple tv plus
and a new green color option for the iPhone 13 and 13 Pro there are a few
things we did pick up on though first they came out and said that the Mac
Studio is not the Apple silicon refresh to the Mac Pro so that's still on the
horizon second they said that the Mac Pro was
the final Mac to make the transition
and the 27-inch iMac like the iMac Pro
is now missing from Apple's product pages
in fact if you type 27 into the URL bar to try and force it you're redirected to
the 24 inch page instead my guess is the M1 Max equipped Max
studio is taking the place of the 27 inch which makes sense looking at the
performance comparisons again it just feels strange for Apple to discontinue a
long-standing SKU like that with no Fanfare you know
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check out a review of the M1 Max MacBooks for a little preview of how the
Baseline Max studio will perform it's pretty good but uh it's still evolving