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❔ What computer is your Mac Studio replacing? ❔
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2019 Mac Pro (selling)
- 12 Core Xeon
- 64GB Ram
- 1TB SSD
- Radeon W5700X 16GB
- PCIE: SSD, FireWire, USB etc.
- 30” Apple Cinema Display
Mac Studio (bought)
- 10 Core M1 Max
- 64GB Ram
- 2TB SSD
- 32 GPU Cores
- 27” 5K Apple Studio Display
- 12 Core Xeon
- 64GB Ram
- 1TB SSD
- Radeon W5700X 16GB
- PCIE: SSD, FireWire, USB etc.
- 30” Apple Cinema Display
Mac Studio (bought)
- 10 Core M1 Max
- 64GB Ram
- 2TB SSD
- 32 GPU Cores
- 27” 5K Apple Studio Display
Seems like I'm one of many others who have held on to an ancient Mac Pro...
2009 Mac Pro 4.1 (8x2.93Ghz, Radeon RX580, 48GB RAM, various SSDs)
Upgrading to Studio M1 Ultra (64 Core GPU, 128GB, 2TB)
2009 Mac Pro 4.1 (8x2.93Ghz, Radeon RX580, 48GB RAM, various SSDs)
Upgrading to Studio M1 Ultra (64 Core GPU, 128GB, 2TB)
2013 6-core, 64 GB, 2 TB Mac Pro if I decide to get one. Right now there isn’t much point to worrying about it since the minimum wait for a non-base Ultra is 10-12 weeks. But I’m looking at the 64 GB, 4 TB, 48 GPU core Ultra for a cool $5 grand.
2013 Max Pro trashcan.
I’m going to have to upgrade my room heating with the Mac Studio, which has done great service, but even playing back YouTube videos at resolutions beyond 1920x1080 is a bit hit and miss. (It can be a bit temperamental on the Studio over HDMI but seems much better on displayport to thunderbolt.)
The Thunderbolt 2 to 3 converter from Apple seems to work ok with my nas and drives (and is less than half price when bought from Amazon, for some reason).
Lightroom seems to cause the 32Gb Studio to swap, for no obvious reason, which was never an issue with the trashcan.
Coding projects are probably the area where I have noticed the biggest speedup, however.
My overall impression is that the MacOS devs have been spending their time on revenue-generating apps and adding features, when they should probably have devoted more time to tuning WindowServer to make it less of a hog and making it easier to for developers to tune their apps to get the most out of the new architecture. At present there seems to be a good deal of throttling and underutilisation of the hardware.
I’m going to have to upgrade my room heating with the Mac Studio, which has done great service, but even playing back YouTube videos at resolutions beyond 1920x1080 is a bit hit and miss. (It can be a bit temperamental on the Studio over HDMI but seems much better on displayport to thunderbolt.)
The Thunderbolt 2 to 3 converter from Apple seems to work ok with my nas and drives (and is less than half price when bought from Amazon, for some reason).
Lightroom seems to cause the 32Gb Studio to swap, for no obvious reason, which was never an issue with the trashcan.
Coding projects are probably the area where I have noticed the biggest speedup, however.
My overall impression is that the MacOS devs have been spending their time on revenue-generating apps and adding features, when they should probably have devoted more time to tuning WindowServer to make it less of a hog and making it easier to for developers to tune their apps to get the most out of the new architecture. At present there seems to be a good deal of throttling and underutilisation of the hardware.
2009 Mac Pro 4,1 > 5,1. Thirteen years old. The Mac Studio M1 Max 32 core GPU won't last so long. It's not upgradable. But I hope to use it 7 years. Fingers crossed that the fans won't make the terrible high pitch noise.
M1 Mini 16 GB and more of what I was doing on 2020 i5 10th gen 13" MBP.
Just don't need expensive "high performance" portability much anymore (and use my work laptops right beside my personal systems quite often too).
Just don't need expensive "high performance" portability much anymore (and use my work laptops right beside my personal systems quite often too).
2011 MacBook Pro 15". It was a beast for years now so outdated and slow. Can't wait for the Studio. Arrives today. Studio display waiting patiently on the desk for the M1 Max's arrival.
Do I win a prize? I replaced my 2019 28-core Mac Pro with a W6800X Duo with a fully-loaded Studio Ultra 64GPU/128GB/8TB. The Ultra is faster at every single thing I use my computer for with one exception--focus stacking huge image stacks. The Mac Pro will now be dedicated 100% to that task, so it's not a loss, but if the software vendor would update their product with Metal support, I'd bet the Studio would even be faster at that last remaining task.