Poll: *** The official Mac Studio thread (it has Apple Silicon, lots of ports and everything!) ***

Are you going to buy an Apple Studio?

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ChrisD. said:
Replacement Studio turned up. Well, it turned up last Monday but I was in Majorca. Set up today, and restored from the returned Studio via Time Machine.

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Apple M4 Max chip with 16‑core CPU, 40‑core GPU, 16‑core Neural Engine
64GB unified memory
2TB SSD storage

Much happier, and should last me a long time.
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Same as mine but you've got 2TB rather than my 1TB. Those Ugreen enclosures have been working 100% stable since I switched over to them so now have 1TB NVM for VMs and a 2TB as general a LLM other AI model stuff, along with Timemachine backups. Seems the controller in the M series macs can be a bit picky about the external enclosure controller.

I did install Cyberpunk 2077 as I had the license already and that plays very well, not that I've played it much but looks pretty and it used to push my PC hard so to do it with inbuilt graphics is quite and achievement.
 
ChrisD. said:
Replacement Studio turned up. Well, it turned up last Monday but I was in Majorca. Set up today, and restored from the returned Studio via Time Machine.

Code: 
Apple M4 Max chip with 16‑core CPU, 40‑core GPU, 16‑core Neural Engine
64GB unified memory
2TB SSD storage

Much happier, and should last me a long time.
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Looks good! I'd love to update to that model.
 
One minor annoyance, and something I noticed with my first Studio is that after waking from sleep, the 10 GbE interface is extremely flaky. I have to unplug it, and plug it back in for it to stabilise. I've got other 10 GbE devices hanging off the same switch and I've moved ports. When it happened the first time I rebooted the switch which solved it and didn't think much of it, but it's done the same thing with the new Studio. From Googling it looks to be a bit of a common issue.
 
nlel1975 said:
I never put mine to sleep due to problems, don’t miss it or think about it at all.
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Just networking, or other problems? I use my work MacBook Pro all day so don't really need the Studio online. And I've not had a Mac desktop for a long time and my Pro's always wake up fine after the lid has been shut with nothing connected.
 
ChrisD. said:
One minor annoyance, and something I noticed with my first Studio is that after waking from sleep, the 10 GbE interface is extremely flaky. I have to unplug it, and plug it back in for it to stabilise. I've got other 10 GbE devices hanging off the same switch and I've moved ports. When it happened the first time I rebooted the switch which solved it and didn't think much of it, but it's done the same thing with the new Studio. From Googling it looks to be a bit of a common issue.
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Could it be fighting over which network adapter it’s using on wake ?

Ie, latching onto WiFi quicker, and then arguing with itself about swapping over to Ethernet ?
 
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Donnie Fisher said:
Could it be fighting over which network adapter it’s using on wake ?

Ie, latching onto WiFi quicker, and then arguing with itself about swapping over to Ethernet ?
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Doubt it, I don't have the same issue with either MacBook Pro I have, it's definitely something with the Mac Studio NIC itself.
 
Looking to add extra storage to my Studio M4 but some of these storage solutions, especially around thunderbolt 5 enclosures are pretty cost prohibitive. I'm considering going for a "UGREEN 40Gbps M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure" paired with a "Crucial P310 4TB SSD M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe Gen4".

What are others thoughts with this? I appreciate I'm not going to max out the SSD with this but ~3GB/s speeds seems achievable with this?
 
darkgen said:
Looking to add extra storage to my Studio M4 but some of these storage solutions, especially around thunderbolt 5 enclosures are pretty cost prohibitive. I'm considering going for a "UGREEN 40Gbps M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure" paired with a "Crucial P310 4TB SSD M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe Gen4".

What are others thoughts with this? I appreciate I'm not going to max out the SSD with this but ~3GB/s speeds seems achievable with this?
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Most important thing for me..
1 - Passive cooling for the case. All active cooling ones has tiny fans that is just will be loud, due to its size and higher pitch and then prone to failure.
2 - USB 4.0 is plenty fast enough.
3 - SSD I would get one that is TLC, although depending on your use case, and whether you want DRAM

I use this site to compare...select 2 that you want to compare at the top, currently I have a Lexar and WD Blue selected.

Compare: Lexar NM790 2TB vs. Western Digital WD Blue SN580 2TB

Here you will find a comparison of Lexar NM790 2TB with Western Digital WD Blue SN580 2TB (Performance comparison, benchmark tests, price comparison).
ssd-tester.com ssd-tester.com

For a case, if you want to stick with UGREEN, get this one instead. That looks like a heatsink.

UGREEN 40Gbps M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure, Aluminum NVMe Enclosure w/ Dual-Sided Fin Heat Sink, No-Fan-Noise M.2 Enclosure Compatible Thunderbolt 4 / USB4 for MacBook Pro M4, Mac Mini M4, Up to 3848MB/s​

 
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Raymond Lin said:
Most important thing for me..
1 - Passive cooling for the case. All active cooling ones has tiny fans that is just will be loud, due to its size and higher pitch and then prone to failure.
2 - USB 4.0 is plenty fast enough.
3 - SSD I would get one that is TLC, although depending on your use case, and whether you want DRAM

I use this site to compare...select 2 that you want to compare at the top, currently I have a Lexar and WD Blue selected.

Compare: Lexar NM790 2TB vs. Western Digital WD Blue SN580 2TB

Here you will find a comparison of Lexar NM790 2TB with Western Digital WD Blue SN580 2TB (Performance comparison, benchmark tests, price comparison).
ssd-tester.com ssd-tester.com

For a case, if you want to stick with UGREEN, get this one instead. That looks like a heatsink.

UGREEN 40Gbps M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure, Aluminum NVMe Enclosure w/ Dual-Sided Fin Heat Sink, No-Fan-Noise M.2 Enclosure Compatible Thunderbolt 4 / USB4 for MacBook Pro M4, Mac Mini M4, Up to 3848MB/s​

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Yes, I think this was the only I was looking at. I'll have a peek at that site. I'm just a bit anxious, as there are untold comments and gripes with various enclosure makes/models about performance and reliability. Regarding SSD; I just want something which pairs with the enclosure and is stable.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Most important thing for me..
1 - Passive cooling for the case. All active cooling ones has tiny fans that is just will be loud, due to its size and higher pitch and then prone to failure.
2 - USB 4.0 is plenty fast enough.
3 - SSD I would get one that is TLC, although depending on your use case, and whether you want DRAM

I use this site to compare...select 2 that you want to compare at the top, currently I have a Lexar and WD Blue selected.

Compare: Lexar NM790 2TB vs. Western Digital WD Blue SN580 2TB

Here you will find a comparison of Lexar NM790 2TB with Western Digital WD Blue SN580 2TB (Performance comparison, benchmark tests, price comparison).
ssd-tester.com ssd-tester.com

For a case, if you want to stick with UGREEN, get this one instead. That looks like a heatsink.

UGREEN 40Gbps M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure, Aluminum NVMe Enclosure w/ Dual-Sided Fin Heat Sink, No-Fan-Noise M.2 Enclosure Compatible Thunderbolt 4 / USB4 for MacBook Pro M4, Mac Mini M4, Up to 3848MB/s​

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I've got two of those and they work perfectly, I've tried others they were rubbish and unstable, this works all day every day. I put an 2TB SN7100 in one and a 1TB WD Black in the other, and they are very fast, the SN7100 get 3500MB/s Read Write on my M4 Max
 
darkgen said:
Yes, I think this was the only I was looking at. I'll have a peek at that site. I'm just a bit anxious, as there are untold comments and gripes with various enclosure makes/models about performance and reliability. Regarding SSD; I just want something which pairs with the enclosure and is stable.
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FYI I don't have this URGREEN one, I got an OWC and a Hagibis. Both very similar design. The OWC one was probably the first one with this heatsink design on the market like 12 months ago and it is the most expensive as a result being the first to market. The Hagibis one cost me like £50 and performs basically on par with the OWC. I got that back in around March.
 
I've got a UGREEN one with a fan but I've never heard it come on. This is probably because of the NVMe drive I'm using, its an old gen 3 drive that doesn't get very hot.
 
Raymond Lin said:

UGREEN 40Gbps M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure, Aluminum NVMe Enclosure w/ Dual-Sided Fin Heat Sink, No-Fan-Noise M.2 Enclosure Compatible Thunderbolt 4 / USB4 for MacBook Pro M4, Mac Mini M4, Up to 3848MB/s​

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Thanks, just ordered this for £48.

Need something quick I can transfer between my M4 Mac Studio and M4 Macbook Air plus watch videos while Im travelling with my iPad.

Only need to find a decent NVMe to drop inside it.
 
malachi said:
Thanks, just ordered this for £48.

Need something quick I can transfer between my M4 Mac Studio and M4 Macbook Air plus watch videos while Im travelling with my iPad.

Only need to find a decent NVMe to drop inside it.
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Anything up to and around 4000mb/s is fine, anything over, you are not going to notice any speed difference.
 
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