![]() For years, pro users – video editors, programmers, artists, musicians – have practically begged Apple for a powerful yet compact Mac, and now they have one. With Mac Studio, you feel these two things have aligned. If you want to play PC games, buy a PC.Īpple usually gives people what Apple thinks they need, rather than what they want. But the Mac’s gaming ecosystem – especially on Apple silicon – remains duff. In terms of specs, this Mac should be a belter for gaming.There’s no external power brick, and so it’s good that the power cable is about 1.8m long, giving you flexibility when it comes to plonking down your Studio.Inexplicably, every accessory of this type costs 20 quid more than the standard edition. Apple has issued black-surface versions of the Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad, along with a black-key extended keyboard, all designed to match Studio kit.In the box, you get the Mac Studio and a power cable, so factor in needing to buy a keyboard and pointing device.We certainly appreciated not having to spin the Mac around or resort to a hub to sporadically plug in accessories or get data off of an SD card. Props to Apple for overcoming its minimalism obsession here in the name of user-friendliness. The unit can drive up to five displays, including four Pro Display XDRs and one 4K display over HDMI.Īnd if you exist in that kind of sci-fi world, surrounded by screens, and fill up the Studio’s rear ports, there are two USB-C ones around front (Thunderbolt on the pricier M1 Ultra model) to plug things into, along with an SDXC card slot. ![]() Around back, you get four Thunderbolt, two USB-A, 10Gb Ethernet, HDMI and a headphone port. Having for years doled out ports as if they were gold dust, the Mac Studio comes across like they’re going out of fashion. But, again, if you lack workflows to take advantage of all that raw power, it’s like owning a Bugatti Chiron and only ever tootling along at 30mph. Here’s another Mac, then, that betters the current – and far more expensive – Mac Pro with Afterburner for such tasks. ![]() And like the 16in MacBook Pro, the Studio chewed through image edits and music production work, and blazed through video encoding. For content creators, the extra graphics and multicore performance over an M1 or M1 Pro is where value resides. ![]() Speaking of which, this Mac largely aligns with the 2021 16in MacBook Pro when it comes to raw power. Apple Peek Performance Event: everything Apple announced.That said, when we tested equivalent Mac laptops over the past year and change, we could barely get their fans to spin up at all. We pushed the review unit – Apple’s baseline M1 Max model, but with 64GB of RAM over the 32GB default – and the fan never spun up further under load. The flip side of the fan thing is that during testing, it never got louder either. ![]()
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