The Apple Mac Studio Is COMPLETELY Worth It!

Presenter: Brett Sticklemonster
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[sorenson-or]

I can’t wait to see all the recycled memes about how many 3090s you could get for one apple product.

[harrybryan]

You can get a very, very nice threadripper pro system for that price.

[tomb]

Yah, that Apple will be really nice till, it breaks and you have to replace something... Then its a 8k paper wieght

[Profato]

It's hard to price something like this that is completely custom like this. Everything is developed in-house, nothing "off the shelf". If we just look at the product itself, it really is amazing what Apple has achieved here.

[jpiscina]

Just $290 for the fan upgrade? That's very Apple

[Bitshift]

I just can't believe they are charging $400 to upgrade to a 2 TB drive. That's just absolutely stupid.

[jto]

8K at micro center I could literally build such a nice computer

[TheScottShepard]

My 16” Mac MAX is half of the Ultra and it is a fantastic developer computer, but it absolutely sucks at even Minecraft. I have a PC for games for a reason. The M1 is not fantastic at everything, but it is amazingly consistently fast and runs all day unplugged when doing things Apple is good at. Do your research, but if you know your apps run well on M1, it’s a truly magical difference from x86.

[SoulRollerFIN]

One thing... you can still upgrade those PCs... You can only do that with the Mac Pro, for now at least. The new Mac Pro might not even be upgradeable.

[Cryo]

The Studio looks awesome but expensive. Was hoping for a Mac Mini speed bump...guess that is not happening.

[AyaWetts]

with the limited software being stuck with macOS only... its an awesome computer with too much limitations put on it.

[FuzzeeDee]

If you believe the comparisons given in the event, the Mac Studio Ultra would run circles around the 5950X. It has 24CPU cores and the integrated GPU is supposed to beat a 3090 plus it has the hardware accelerated h.264/265, pro res 422, etc. this thing will be a beast.

[Christamaiztha]

I went from a little drunk to blackout watching dis

[joprecious]

But to get a 3090 you gotta pay around 4K so it’s worth it to buy a mac

[marcopervo]

The same people who shell out $1000+ for a CPU/GPU upgrade without blinking say this is over-powered/too expensive. The Studio will likely have a shelf-life of five years+, and since it cannot be upgraded the extra power will maximize its service life.

[officedemon]

"DO YOU KNOW HOW HYDRATED YOU COULD BE" -Brett Host

[xaytana]

Depending on how the M1 Ultra performs, and seeing what the M2 lineup will eventually do, I think this is a wake up call for AMD and Intel to look into the ARM space for PC, because Qualcomm and Samsung sure as hell aren't doing anything above mobile chips, and I don't even think Nvidia's next gaming SOC (Switch 2 probably, as well as next Shield lineup as well) will compete within this space. Apple is pioneering the change to ARM-based PCs, and they're absolutely going to monopolize this space until any other major chip manufacturer gets their ass moving, because right now everyone is falling significantly behind; at this point, depending on how good M2 and M3 are, it may take significantly more generations for a competitor to catch up. OS really isn't even an argument, Linux itself is more than capable of being immediately adopted to higher end ARM hardware, Windows has an ARM variant but it probably needs work, but it won't see much work until the non-Apple side of the industry starts seeing the shift to ARM. And think about it, ARM is the best option for the mobile PC space, laptops and tablets, due to performance to power efficiency ratio, which x86 can't currently and probably never will be able to compete with, it's why x86 handhelds really aren't the best idea, and if we can just cluster chips to have desktop and workstation performance, that's an even more compelling reason for the industry to shift to ARM; and within clustering for higher performant systems, this would be even better if we look at what AMD is doing with Infinity Fabric, or what IBM is doing with their virtual L3 cache that's a massive bank of L2 that is prioritized per native core but shared with the cluster, though I forget the name of IBM's vL3 tech, these kinds of advancements would make multichip modules at massive scales, and clustering, all that much better. It's time that the rest of the industry makes a move on PC-level ARM chips before Apple has too much of a head start.

And to think, Microsoft could've helped pioneer this with a partner if the original Surface concept was good enough in practice to catch on, but the software was just so bad. But to be fair they were massively ahead of the curve when they originally attempted this, not that their most recent attempts at ARM devices are that much better, like the Duo.

[ZZTalkZZ]

Yes but apples very energy efficient, especially when encoding videos.

[ZSchrink]

It really is surprising how small they made it

[watchoutbelow]

Why is "buying" the most expensive a comparison? Did I miss something?