Poll: *** The official Mac Studio 2023 thread (it has the M2 Ultra, up to 192 Gb RAM and everything!) ***

Are you going to buy the 2023 Mac Studio

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I'm curious what people think the chances of an M4 Studio being released at WWDC in June? That was when the last two were released so it seems plausable.
 
uvarvu said:
Mark Gurman over at Bloomberg reckons this week. M4 max and M3 ultra chips inside.
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That sounds interesting. I tried to find the article but couldn't find it. Do you have a link?

Edit: My bad. Was looking on the Bloomberg website.

www.macrumors.com

Mac Studio With M4 Max and M3 Ultra Chips Could Launch This Week

An updated version of the Mac Studio could launch as soon as this week, reports Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The new machine is expected to be...
www.macrumors.com www.macrumors.com
 
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uvarvu said:
Mark Gurman over at Bloomberg reckons this week. M4 max and M3 ultra chips inside.
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Gurman has already been wrong about the MBA multiple times these last few weeks, the sooner people stop reading his absolute nonsense the better the world will be. Puts enough guesses in the air which my great-great-granny could predict and some of them land.
 
Throrik said:
Gurman has already been wrong about the MBA multiple times these last few weeks, the sooner people stop reading his absolute nonsense the better the world will be. Puts enough guesses in the air which my great-great-granny could predict and some of them land.
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No surprise that Gurman got almost everything right..
 
I'm tempted with that M4 max. It's all I would need to buy with no other ports and adpaters compared to if I got the m4 mini. I love my M1 mini but the lack of built in ports is annoying and good hubs cost hundreds anyway.
 
I've been thinking about this a fair bit. My original plan was to upgrade to the new Ultra model but after thinking about things I'm just going to stick to my M1 Max. I rarely run out of resources I need (except SSD - I wish I had gone for the 1TB model) so I'm just going to wait and see what happens. If things change and I need more power I can always reevaluate.
 
I tried to Google this but I'm slightly confused. The M4 Max CPU uses the ARMv9 instruction set but I think the M3 Ultra chip uses the ARMv8 instruction set as far as I can tell. This seems a weird difference when it comes to targeting the same generation Mac Studio. Unfortunately if you want the increased performance you need to go with the ARMv8 instruction set.
 
Cromulent said:
I tried to Google this but I'm slightly confused. The M4 Max CPU uses the ARMv9 instruction set but I think the M3 Ultra chip uses the ARMv8 instruction set as far as I can tell. This seems a weird difference when it comes to targeting the same generation Mac Studio. Unfortunately if you want the increased performance you need to go with the ARMv8 instruction set.
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This shouldn't be relevant to the end user in vast majority of cases. v8 and v9 were continued to be developed and v9 only supersets v8 revisions with additional datacentre focused instructions which weren't a priority for Apple. E.g. ARMv8.6 (which M3 series implement) was released together with ARMv9.1 and got the consumer-related newer features. With M4 it seems like Apple decided to fully migrate over to ARMv9.2 rather than going with ARMv8.7 after ARM stopped developing v8 any further.

Apple also adds additional instructions on top of these, so I don't think anyone should actually worry about this unless there's a very specific use-case that they've validated would be affected by the differences.
 
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HACO said:
This shouldn't be relevant to the end user in vast majority of cases. v8 and v9 were continued to be developed and v9 only supersets v8 revisions with additional datacentre focused instructions which weren't a priority for Apple. E.g. ARMv8.6 (which M3 series implement) was released together with ARMv9.1 and got the consumer-related newer features. With M4 it seems like Apple decided to fully migrate over to ARMv9.2 rather than going with ARMv8.7 after ARM stopped developing v8 any further.

Apple also adds additional instructions on top of these, so I don't think anyone should actually worry about this unless there's a very specific use-case that they've validated would be affected by the differences.
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Thank you. Useful information. I've been looking at doing some assembly language programming so was curious about the instruction set having said that I doubt I'll upgrade my computer any time soon so it doesn't really matter.
 
I've just picked up a refurb M4 Max Studio, I run a load of VMs so needed memory more than anything which is why I sold on my Mac Mini M2 Pro. Didn't get go mad on the spec, but its a great machine and sold on my gaming PC as that wasn't being used which between it and the Mac Mini paid for the majority of this.

Did consider the M4 Mini but it was missing the external ports I wanted and by the time I added a dock and got the spec I wanted the gap wasn't all that big (man maths for the win :D) so M4 Max 16 Core 40 GPU, 64GB Ram and 1TB storage.
 
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