#Studio one mac m1 full

#Studio one mac m1 full

Configuring a Mac Pro with equivalent options will cost you over €20,000 but a similarly specced Mac Studio with the full spec M1 Ultra will be around €5000. The benchmarks Apple posted indicate that this has enough CPU power to beat the 28 core Xeon (seemingly confirmed by leaked geek bench results), currently found in the highest end Mac Pro, as well as enough GPU clout to beat a Nvidia Geforce 3090 (not confirmed yet). Essentially two M1 Mac chips fused together so it acts like a single processor, this new chip is pretty incredible. Which brings us to the M1 Ultra, Apple’s newly announced über-chip. At least with the Mac studio and Studio Display, you can always swap out the display if you need to and keep working. If you have a problem with your display, you have to send your whole computer in for repair.

Thats always been one of the disadvantages of the iMac. The last time I owned an iMac the display died on me, but the computer part was still fine, but there was effectively no way to use it. While this has upset some people, there are big advantages to having the display and the computer separate. Not only did Apple announce an entirely new Mac line, but they also announced a new chip, which by itself would have been an incredible announcement.Ĭoupled with the new Studio Display, the Mac studio seemingly takes the place of the older and now discontinued 27” iMac in the lineup. However, as the event approached, the momentum on this suggested it would be a real thing. However, a few days before the Apple event rumours started to arrive about a new Mac, called the Mac Studio.Īt first I thought these rumours were too good to be true, especially as some of them seemed to be coming from a source without a previous track record. I had assumed that Apple would release a higher end Mac mini like their previous intel versions, which would have sufficed. I didn’t want to go all out on a new Mac Pro until after the Apple Silicon transition, and even then, I wasn’t sure I wanted to go down the route of a large tower again. While this setup is working well for me, there are disadvantages to using a laptop as a desktop replacement long term, especially when you want to still use it as a laptop. While I have switched from an older Mac Pro to using my MacBook pro as my main Mac for all of my work and day to day computing needs, this was only ever a stop gap solution until a replacement desktop was released that was powerful enough to suit my needs.

To explain why I’m so excited, let me rewind a little…Įver since I got my M1 MacBook Pro last year, I have been waiting to see if Apple would release a higher end Mac mini. For me, the Mac Studio is the ultimate Mac for what I do, and it is something I think many creators like myself have wanted for a long time. And all that excitement comes form just one part of the presentation: the announcement of the Mac Studio. I don’t think I’ve ever been as excited about an Apple announcement as I was this week after Apple’s March 2022 event.