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2.5 months of Mac Studio

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tstafford

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I picked up my Studio base model 2.5 months ago. Just wanted to say that it is easily the best computer I have ever owned. It's surely overpowered for what I do, but I love the darn thing. It just works. No nonsense, no issues, nothing.

The I/O is terrific - I use the ethernet, three of the TB ports, both USB-A. For those that need the I/O the price starts to make sense vs. a Mini and a high end doc like the Caldigit.
Noise - I guess maybe I got lucky, but mine is silent. Regularly sleep in the room the MS lives in and I never hear it.
Handles everything I toss at it - mostly multiple screens, streaming video while "working", etc.
Sound - MS internal (terrible), ASD (meh) but Kanto YU2 and sub are terrific for the $$$

Anyway - nothing of substance. Just a highly satisfied customer who would recommend this machine to anyone who doesn't mind paying up. It's well worth it to me.
 
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I have to agree. I reluctantly upgraded from a 2015 27" with16 gig of ram. I run LR, Photoshop and Luminar when I process photos and my system would bog down badly sometimes. I have had the Studio Mac for a year (32gig of RAM) and it performs flawlessly with all three applications running. Now if I just had a decent Internet provider in the area!
 
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Upgraded from a fully spec 2014 i7 iMac to a Mac Studio and Apple Studio Display and so far I'm enjoying the differences. The only gripe I have is with the display after the Studio has been sleeping. Some application windows resize to the bottom left corner. Not all the time but I cannot find a fix as yet. I would still have preferred to have had a new M1 large screen iMac instead but I guess, it's not meant to be...
 
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tstafford

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Basic75 said:
As long as more single threaded performance wasn't the goal it's quite a good upgrade.
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Wasn't the goal. Main goal - three displays and more I/O. Need M1 Max for the displays (as you know) and Caldigit or similar is pricey anyway. Secondary goal - more RAM for consistently better performance (that alone isn't worth it but in combination with the main goal, why not)
 
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Basic75 said:
As long as more single threaded performance wasn't the goal it's quite a good upgrade.
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That's been hard to come by for almost a decade now. Single-threaded performance has stagnated/creeped up, and it's been all about more cores and/or more and more powerful GPUs taking on more tasks.
 
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pshufd

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I have had my Studio for about 3 months and it's a very nice system. The CPU performance is very good for my needs. I do routinely use about 80% GPU capability so going with 32 GPU cores might have been a better choice but I didn't want to wait for a BTO. The one area where it lacks is RAM as I wanted to run a virtual machine but I pulled out my old Windows desktop and will just use that (it has 128 GB of RAM).

So the Studio is very nice - but the one negative is the lag time to order BTOs.
 
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pshufd said:
So the Studio is very nice - but the one negative is the lag time to order BTOs.
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The lack of flexibility when choosing your configuration is also a negative. For my line of work I could use the CPU from the M1 Ultimate with all of its 20 cores, but don't need more than the GPU from a simple M1. And let's not talk about RAM. Ignoring Apple's prices, there are too few size options, it can't be expanded later, and ECC is nowhere to be seen.
 
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webbga said:
I have to agree. I reluctantly upgraded from a 2015 27" with16 gig of ram. I run LR, Photoshop and Luminar when I process photos and my system would bog down badly sometimes. I have had the Studio Mac for a year (32gig of RAM) and it performs flawlessly with all three applications running. Now if I just had a decent Internet provider in the area!
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What about the high pitch noise?
 
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