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

[Armageus]

Interesting.

Mac Studio: Should You Buy? Features, Price, Reviews and More

The Mac Studio is a pro-oriented desktop Mac that's a hybrid between a Mac mini and a Mac Pro. Equipped with an M4 Max or M3 Ultra chip and tons...

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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.

 

[Cromulent]

Does the RAM in the Mac Studio support ECC?

 

[Cromulent]

Just the Studio and Pro left now to update. I hope it is reasonably soon. I'm really interested in what they will include.

 

[Bluecube]

Just the Studio and Pro left now to update. I hope it is reasonably soon. I'm really interested in what they will include.

Still two days. It's one new release every day this week I thought. Having said that, you'd hope the Studio and Pro would be updated but I don't recall seeing any rumour of M4 Max chips which you'd expect to be in such devices.

 

[Cromulent]

Still two days. It's one new release every day this week I thought. Having said that, you'd hope the Studio and Pro would be updated but I don't recall seeing any rumour of M4 Max chips which you'd expect to be in such devices.

The new MBP has an M4 Max chip option.

I guess I just have to wait and see. Fingers crossed .

 

[rp2000]

Still two days. It's one new release every day this week I thought. Having said that, you'd hope the Studio and Pro would be updated but I don't recall seeing any rumour of M4 Max chips which you'd expect to be in such devices.

The new MBP has an M4 Max chip option.

I guess I just have to wait and see. Fingers crossed .

No more updates this week. It was just 3 days.


rp2000

 

[Feek]

I've been setting it up over the weekend and I have to say that I'm loving it. I've set it up from scratch, not using migration assistant so I've had my iMac running, working my way through the installed applications and re-installing them onto the new computer. I'm blown away by the speed of this thing and I've barely touched the surface of it.

I've had this for three years and a couple of days - I only realised this because I've had the notification that my AppleCare+ has expired and I can renew it at £60 for a year, and my two Studio displays can be renewed for £45/year each.

I think I'll do the Studio, probably not the displays.

 

[HACO]

I've had this for three years and a couple of days - I only realised this because I've had the notification that my AppleCare+ has expired and I can renew it at £60 for a year, and my two Studio displays can be renewed for £45/year each.

I think I'll do the Studio, probably not the displays.

Never got AppleCare+, but that's a decent deal.

 

[mid_gen]

Got the black magic keyboard with numeric today. Frighteningly expensive, but actually it is a really lovely bit of kit.

Was using a PC keyboard on my MBA which was getting annoying.

Has anyone switched to using the Magic Trackpad? I'd quite like to just get used to one set of inputs, and I do miss the pinch zoom, horizontal scroll and stuff, when I'm using the mouse. Quite expensive if I just find it annoying though.

 

[Raymond Lin]

Got the black magic keyboard with numeric today. Frighteningly expensive, but actually it is a really lovely bit of kit.

Was using a PC keyboard on my MBA which was getting annoying.

Has anyone switched to using the Magic Trackpad? I'd quite like to just get used to one set of inputs, and I do miss the pinch zoom, horizontal scroll and stuff, when I'm using the mouse. Quite expensive if I just find it annoying though.

I have the 1st gen magic trackpad at work, I love it and it becomes 2nd nature in Adobe apps when doing pinch zooms and moving objects around. I even use it to zoom into webpages.

The 1st gen takes AA batt so in theory will have a longer life than the new built in battery one. I am not sure on the feel of the clicks though.

 

[mid_gen]

I have the 1st gen magic trackpad at work, I love it and it becomes 2nd nature in Adobe apps when doing pinch zooms and moving objects around. I even use it to zoom into webpages.

The 1st gen takes AA batt so in theory will have a longer life than the new built in battery one. I am not sure on the feel of the clicks though.

Thought I'd give it a whirl, arrived this morning. Lovely heavy and solid bit of kit like the keyboard.

Was a bit concerned it would be annoying with my 5120x1440 ultrawide, but actually after using it for a couple of hours it's fine. Really nice having the smooth scrolling in two axes. Need to practice using the gestures a bit more to get the muscle memory.

Now I just need to get my PC sold so I can get a new monitor, before I go for the Studio.

 

[Feek]

Has anyone switched to using the Magic Trackpad? I'd quite like to just get used to one set of inputs, and I do miss the pinch zoom, horizontal scroll and stuff, when I'm using the mouse. Quite expensive if I just find it annoying though.

I haven't used a mouse on any of my Macs since the original Magic Trackpad was released!