My advice would be try not to let your paranoia drive you to look for faults. It’s hard to do reading these threads. The only reason I traded my model in was because I noticed issues in my day-to-day use not because I stress tested the unit under unrealistic settings (not saying you’re doing that). If you’re not bothered by your Mac Studio then I’d keep it. I’m a huge fan of this product category and hope Apple continues to iterate.This is what it sounds like.
The phone is literally 1cm from the rear exhaust.
To be fair I almost cannot hear it; it's just the paranoia of having a machine with some problem.
I was spoiled by the utter quietness of the mac mini M1, but this is still completely manageable.
When using the MacBook Pro at a laptop I can’t get the fans to even come on. When docked to a display I can get them to come on at 2500 RPM with moderate usage, but it’s utterly inaudible and I really like it.I returned my Studio Ultra and reverted back to my silent M1 Macbook Pro (using XDR display with it). The constant fan noise was annoying to me. I never had a Mac that was audibly detectable just while surfing the web. My M1 Macbook Pro fans do not run with normal use.
My memory was the D300's were the primary problem cards. Mine had the D500's and worked flawlessly until I drowned it accidentally.My Mac Pro 6,1 has been on nearly 24/7 since May 2014. Much of the time at idle and I never had any trouble with heat. Mine has dual D500s though. Maybe the GPU problems were with the D700s?
For a desktop machine, external or internal power supply does not really matter, you plugin it once and it rarely needs to move. But Apple's decision to use internal power supply for both the Mac Studio and the Studio Display is exactly the reason why they have to keep the fan always on on the Mac Studio, and also to put two fans inside the Studio Display. Both of which could have been avoided.
Yes, it's quite similar.
The D300's were the least likely to die. D700's were the most likely.My memory was the D300's were the primary problem cards.
Thank you ! Seems that the fans air flow is clearly audible.This is what it sounds like.
The phone is literally 1cm from the rear exhaust.
To be fair I almost cannot hear it; it's just the paranoia of having a machine with some problem.
I was spoiled by the utter quietness of the mac mini M1, but this is still completely manageable.
I left a post yesterday once I updated to 12.3.1 I started getting the noise back. plus TG PRO keeps reporting my left fan as not working even though it shows it moving. Kinda of freaked out. Sounds like it has a traditional hard drive in it. keeps making chirping noises.Why return your second one if it's perfect?
This is what is sounds like after a few hours of use.Thank you ! Seems that the fans air flow is clearly audible.
So you said your iphone was 1cm from the rear exhaust.
Not really sure how can i use your record to simulate on my desk 🙄 Is your record could be used in a way to figure how noisy is a mac studio ?
So, I understand you owned a mac mini before. How would you qualify the mac studio ? Just « quiet » but louder as the mac mini, or « silent » as inaudible at 50/60 cm ?
Ya I’m more worried about the noises that crept up after the update. I even ran recovery and did a clean install to remove TG pro. Fans are are gushing now and I’m getting the odd chirp once in a while. For the record I still think it’s the best value and now I don’t know what to do. I can‘t believe the ASD has ginormous fans and twice the power supply size snd makes absolutely no noise. I wanted it to work but my fault for updating I guess.maybe TG Pro needs to catch up to the new hardware![]()
I just can’t believe apple has not made a statement about this yet I’m pretty sure people complained for day one. if no statement by next Wednesday I’m returning my second one
I remember the whole iMac g5 x vs y capacitor situation. The x I believe would swell to the point of rendering the logic board useless. apple stood by them right away and offered me a different system free of charge. They eventually make formal statements like they did Z for the ASD web cams. Wednesday is my last day to return. I was hoping for a statement to give me reason to keep. Some kind of acknowledgment with a fix.I don’t think they’ll make a statement unless sites like The Verge or well known YouTubers ask them about it. I have tried asking different people with enough influence to ask Apple about it but seems no one is interested in pursuing this.
You can see from your recording that there is a squeal at 2.2 kHz and dropouts occur - this is very audible afterwards.This is what is sounds like after a few hours of use.
It's literally 1cm behind the exhaust (recorded via iPhone 13)
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I'd say it can be heared in complete silence if you're without headphones.
If you use headphones of any kind, it's almost inaudible.
My mac Mini M1 was completely inaudible; never heared it once, but it was MUCH less powerful.
Once again, I'd rather have more power with a little noise than the opposite.
I don't mind a little noise for a powerful machine; I just hope having a slightly noisier unit won't mean having a damaged one.
Everything else seems to work as it's supposed to.
I bought a MacBook Pro M1 Max today because even if I win the whistle noise rebuy lottery now I don’t 100% trust that quiet Mac Studios won’t eventually develop the noise later on.I left a post yesterday once I updated to 12.3.1 I started getting the noise back. plus TG PRO keeps reporting my left fan as not working even though it shows it moving. Kinda of freaked out. Sounds like it has a traditional hard drive in it. keeps making chirping noises.
I just got back from a long trip to the Apple Store after returning my whistling Mac Studio.I can't bear noise and am returning my Mac Studio (M1 Max). I am coming from a Mac Mini and was startled by how noisy the Studio is even when doing nothing. I spend a lot of time in a silent office and very quickly the noise is very irritating, especially the higher pitched whistle-like noise that many have also reported.
I am also very disappointed that so many of the reviewers like Nilay Patel at The Verge and others did not pick up on this. Ironic that they pan the Studio Display but praise the Studio itself (and I'm having the completely opposite experience)