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

[Armageus]

Interesting.

Apple's M4 Mac Studio: What We Know So Far

Apple is planning to refresh the entire Mac lineup with updated M4 chips starting in late 2024 and continuing into 2025, and that will include a new...

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Memory Updates​

The next ‌Mac Studio‌ and ‌Mac Pro‌ could support as much as 500GB of Unified Memory, up from the current 192GB maximum.

I'll speculate with as much success as them, that it won't, and it'll be far more likely to top out at 256GB

 

[Cromulent]

I'll speculate with as much success as them, that it won't, and it'll be far more likely to top out at 256GB

I mean fair enough it is all conjecture at this point but it is still interesting. I guess we'll find out at WWDC whether there will be an M3 Studio. Not long to go now.

 

[Broken Hope]

"What We Know So Far"

What they actually know: Nothing.

It's based on Mark Gurman rumours and to be fair he's right more times than he's wrong.

 

[Feek]

It's based on Mark Gurman rumours and to be fair he's right more times than he's wrong.

He’s not though. For example, he predicted that there wasn’t going to be an iPad event.

Actually, his rumours seem to change weekly. One week he’ll say something will happen and a week later, he’ll say the opposite. He therefore covers all bases.

And a lot of the stuff he says is common sense. “The next Apple CPU will be the M4”.

No ****, Sherlock.

I have no time for Gurman.

 

[ChrisD.]

He’s not though. For example, he predicted that there wasn’t going to be an iPad event.

Actually, his rumours seem to change weekly. One week he’ll say something will happen and a week later, he’ll say the opposite. He therefore covers all bases.

And a lot of the stuff he says is common sense. “The next Apple CPU will be the M4”.

No ****, Sherlock.

I have no time for Gurman.

A broken clock is right two times a day.

 

[Cromulent]

I've run out of USB-C ports on my Studio. I've been looking at the Anker Thunderbolt 4 dock and it seems to do everything I need. The only problem is it has an SD-Card slot which is a waste as the Studio has one built in.

Basically I need two USB-A ports to plug in a couple of external SSDs. I think they are USB 3.2 so they don't need a Thunderbolt 4 port. I also have a Blu-ray drive which I think requires two USB-A ports for some strange reason.

I already have a USB-A hub for my keyboard, microphone and (I think) my webcam. I'm just trying to organise things as it is a complete mess at the moment. I've even thought about ditching the two external SSDs and instead getting an external NVMe enclosure and a 4TB NVMe SSD but I'm not sure if I should go for a PCIe 4 or PCIe 5 drive.

 

[Feek]

I've renamed this thread to be a generic Mac Studio thread as it makes sense that way.

I think the announcement of the M4 chip today is probably a good hint that there won't be an M3 Mac Studio and that they'll jump to the M4.

 

[Cromulent]

Last year I managed to poor a drink over my Magic Keyboard and assumed it was broken so put it to one side to dry and then forgot about it. Found it last night and it works perfectly. It is not as nice as the keyboard I bought afterwards but it is near silent so I can type away at my computer at night without waking anyone.