Huh so it is. Didn't realise the matching spec Intel Mini was the same price. I can't see it being in the store for much longer then. The Studio is a much better buy. And way more powerful.
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The base model Mac Studio is great value.
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Huh so it is. Didn't realise the matching spec Intel Mini was the same price. I can't see it being in the store for much longer then. The Studio is a much better buy. And way more powerful.
The Studio has an internal power supply though. That makes a difference in the heating and thermals.
Totally agree. Configure the Intel-based Mac mini with I7, 64GB ram, 1TB ssd and 10Gb ethernet and it is very close to the Studio with M1 Max 10/32, 64GB ram, 1TB ssd. The edu discount makes the Studio $30 cheaper. At least here in Norway...
Thanks for the laugh. I needed that this morning. Looks like you did no research on this from a financial standpoint also.
I'm good with this device and going to order a base model with 1TB SSD. Ideally I would have liked a Mac Mini with an M1 Pro chip for ~$1,500 but the Mac Studio checks all the boxes and we get the M1 Max and 32GB of RAM to boot. We had a 2017 27" iMac that died and I told my wife we're moving away from the all-in-one so if a computer dies or we need to upgrade we don't have to throw out a perfectly good screen to go along with it.
I don't see what the fuss about price is. If your business lives or dies on having the most powerful desktop available £4k isn't a lot for the base M1 Ultra at all. My institution has an ageing video editing suite with 30 trashcan Mac Pro's and in final rendering they are no faster than my Windows PC. Ex-VAT it would cost less than £100k to replace them all with the base M1 Ultra, peanuts for higher education budgets.
As the old adage goes 'You get what you pay for." Never mind thanks to the lower wattage the M1 Ultra will be cheaper to run (and as IBM itself showed PCs are not as productive as even Intel Macs) so that cheaper price in the short run may be costing you a lot more in the long run. (penny wise pound foolish).
I wonder if someone will design a mount option. I have my Mac mini M1 mounted to the side of my desk. Would like to do the same if I ever purchase a Mac Studio.
IMO this is a huge drawback for the all in one systems. My brother has the original 27" 5K iMac which is now dated. The base model Mac Studio would be a great replacement for it. The problem is he would have to obtain a screen along with the system. I know Apple would be happy to sell him the new screen but then that drives up the cost. So he's likely to remain with the iMac until he has no choice.
Is there no way to "hack" / "modify" the 27" iMac so that it can used as an external display?
He doesn't have to buy a new screen with each computer. Buy one now, and with the next computer purchase, reuse the screen.
I believe the ability to use an iMac display as an external display was removed with this model.
Understood. The issue is he would have to buy a new display now in order to use the Mac Studio.
Except that you can do the 32GB RAM upgrade on your own for only about $150 which isn't possible on studio.
OWC makes two different storage chassis that match the Mac Mini in size, no 3.5 drive though, because they’re from this decade.
Personally I’m looking forward to Sonnet’s eventual rackmount chassis.
Depending on what you consider a “hack” you have a number of options:
1. Remote Desktop from the iMac to the Studio
2. Use desktop Luna Display
3. Sidecar (which going forward is likely gonna be Apples answer to TDM)
None of which are optimal or technically “using the iMac as a display”, but they’re options nonetheless.
You would have to open it up and connect a new 5K driver board with DP outputs. They can be had for like $200-300.
Just search for 5k driver board like the R1811, R9A18 or U49 (has a USB-C connector). The LM270QQ1 and LM270QQ2 5K panels can be had for around the same.
Apple is probably using the new LM270QQ-SPA3 panel, which is a true 10-bit panel and 540 cd/m² luminance.
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I have looked at that, saw it when the thread in the Mac mini subforum; I do not like that the M.2 NVMe SSD is not running as fast as it should be (OWC states 770MB/s)...
The OWC chassis linked above does, indeed, have provisions for housing a 3.5" HDD...
You cannot beat a 3.5" SATAIII HDD for TB/$, even two decades into the 21st century...!
Not around here, power isn't a very high cost at all, we're talking years to make up the difference.
I have both anyway.
I was waffling on this but with the edu discount and trading in my 2020 Intel Imac... I ordered the base Mac Studio with 2tb storage..... This is my last future proofing... I hope it's worth it.
Oh so it does, I thought it was a 2.5 inch drive.
No disagreement there, but the world seems hungry to move on.