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Poll: Which Mac Studio did you / will you order?
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M1 Ultra and 64 GPU cores. This is the minimum also looking in the long term and not to buy a new one every year to save money.
But M1 Quad will be even better with 128 GPU cores. The 18-inch MacBook Pro should have it too.
Yes if the difference between 48 and 64 will is big enough perhaps I will.
I did a BTO option: M1 Max + 32GB of RAM + 32 Core GPU + 2TB SSD
As much as I love tech and wished I had workflows to really stress these machines, if I'm honest I could get by just fine on an M1 (and I bet most people could other than the RAM ceiling). This is already vastly overkill, but it's only every 5-7 years that I completely redo my setup so I pushed some of those upgrade options because it made me happy.
As much as I love tech and wished I had workflows to really stress these machines, if I'm honest I could get by just fine on an M1 (and I bet most people could other than the RAM ceiling). This is already vastly overkill, but it's only every 5-7 years that I completely redo my setup so I pushed some of those upgrade options because it made me happy.
I’m happy with my humble 24” M1 iMac. I don’t need anything more, with the options it was still 2000 euros and paying double for a Mac Studio would have stretched my finances.
I ordered a 32-core Max. I didn't exactly work it out with complex maths, but usually the middle product in a range is the sweet spot. So in a selection of four units it was either a 32 core Max or a 48 core Ultra. I really cannot justify the price of an Ultra. The machine will be obsolete long before I need that level of power, so it's not cost-effective for me.
Pretty much my thoughts too.
Usually have done the same in past also. Picking the upper mid versions of my Macs.
Though I have been thinking on low Ultra too because the delivery will be faster.
I will buy the monitor first, of a reseller soonest and run it with my MBA awhile. A transition-time kinda.
Such long delivery-time here in Sweden on Apple so we'll see.....nothing ordered yet, nothing availble yet.
One major headache is that BTO is 10-12 weeks out while the base is "only" 3-4 weeks. I would order the base if I had to. I can't really justify getting one as my current hardware meets my needs. Maybe in a couple of years.
For personal use a 32 core Max, that has been fantastic and definitely worth the wait - my gateway out of reliance on a windows machine at home as the few remaining games work better in W11 Emu than natively on old PC.
For work, we ordered a pair of 64 core Ultra's but have since returned them and bought a pair of 48 cores to replace them direct from an in-person Apple Store. Our uses didn't need the marginal extra oomph after all (3% quicker render for ~£1500 didn't make a whole heap of sense).
For work, we ordered a pair of 64 core Ultra's but have since returned them and bought a pair of 48 cores to replace them direct from an in-person Apple Store. Our uses didn't need the marginal extra oomph after all (3% quicker render for ~£1500 didn't make a whole heap of sense).
I considered doing this, but the paltry 512Gb SSD convinced me otherwise. External could have worked but minimum size and speed difference with the internal SSD was too important for me. I think Apple should have offered 1Tb SSD minimum for the M1 Max Studio. I’m still holding off on BTO.
Base Max here.
I keep losing track of all the numbers, speeds & feeds; seriously!
It has way more CPUs and GPUs than I probably need anyway LOL
I keep losing track of all the numbers, speeds & feeds; seriously!
It has way more CPUs and GPUs than I probably need anyway LOL
You should look what it doesn’t have:
-Only 20 cpu cores. Others have 32 cpu cores.
-Integer is very slow.
-Only 8 TB SSD instead 16 TB.
-Only 128 GB RAM. But thanks for 128 GB RAM.
-No ECC RAM.
-Only 60 Hz. Others have 120 Hz and HDMI 2.1, not the old one.
-SD card slot has only UHS-II xDDD that’s stone age.
-Even chess engines, which runs on full CPU or GPU or both, runs extremely slow.
-Only the old WLAN 6.
-Only the old Bluetooth 5.0
-No Hyperthreading
-No AVX-512 (vnni)
-No MacBook Pro 16- or 18-inch with M1 Ultra or M2 Ultra chip.
But I’m happy to see in the next year the:
15-inch MacBook Air,
18-inch MacBook Pro with M2 Pro and Max chip,
20-inch MacBook Pro with M2 Max and M2 Ultra chip.
The number of cores is a meaningless metric without further contextual elements.
Only 8TB of SSD? - I had to ask OWC if their limit on the Express 4M2 was defined using their own NVMe SSD's (Yes it is), or an actual hard limit, as I was the ONLY person to query using it with 4x Sabrent 8TB NVMe SSDs'.
The number of even workstation users who equip more than 128GB for anything other than e-peen is tiny.
ECC - fair enough.
Only 60Hz - i assume you're meaning at 4K over HDMI, suddenly this becomes irrelevant if you're using a brain and using anything other than HDMI.
UHS-II is still defacto standard for most camera platforms using SD, anything needing faster will using other media.
WLAN 6 and Bluetooth 5 - if you actually care, you are not the intended market anyway.
Hyperthreading was always a farce.
AVX-512 - you mean the instruction set that even its maker is abandoning because its so irrelevant?
An 18 or 20 inch MBP? 2009 called it wants its idea back.
Seriously - get back in your padded cell, you utter nut.