Apple Releases New Mac Studio And Studio Display Powered By M1 Max And M1 Ultra Chips

Apple unveiled Mac Studio and Studio Display today, a completely new Mac desktop and display powered by the company’s M1 Max and M1 Ultra chips. Users of Mac Studio can perform tasks that are not possible on other desktop computers, such as rendering massive 3D environments and playing back 18 streams of ProRes video. Studio Display has a 27-inch 5K Retina display, a 12-megapixel Ultra-Wide camera with Centre Stage, and a high-fidelity six-speaker sound system with spatial audio.

Mac Studio

The Mac Studio was created to optimise the performance of the M1 Max and M1 Ultra, resulting in an unprecedented amount of power and capability in a form factor that can be used on a desk. With a square footprint of only 19.7 centimetres and a height of only 9.5 centimetres, it is made from a single aluminium extrusion.

A system of double-sided blowers precisely placed airflow channels, and over 4,000 perforations on the back and bottom of the enclosure guide air through the internal components and help cool the high-performance chips round out the Mac Studio’s unique thermal design. And, thanks to the efficiency of Apple silicon, Mac Studio is incredibly quiet even under the most intense workloads.

Apple’s new desktop is powered by either the M1 Max chip or the new M1 Ultra chip (you can read more about the M1 Ultra here). According to Apple, the Mac Studio powered by the M1 Max features:

• Up to 2.5x faster CPU performance than the fastest 27-inch iMac with a 10-core processor.
• Up to 50% faster CPU performance than Mac Pro with a 16-core Xeon processor.
• Up to 3.4x faster graphics performance than the 27-inch iMac, and over 3x faster than Mac Pro with its most popular graphics card.
• Up to 7.5x faster than the 27-inch iMac, and up to 3.7x faster than 16-core Mac Pro when transcoding video.

The Mac Studio powered by the M1 Ultra chip on the other hand features:

• Up to 3.8x faster CPU performance than the fastest 27-inch iMac with a 10-core processor.
• Up to 90% faster CPU performance than Mac Pro with 16-core Xeon processor.
• Up to 60% faster CPU performance than 28-core Mac Pro.
• Up to 4.5x faster graphics performance than the 27-inch iMac, and up to 80% faster than the fastest Mac graphics card available today.
• Up to 12x faster than the 27-inch iMac, and up to 5.6x faster than 28-core Mac Pro when transcoding video.

The new Mac Studio also features up to 64GB of unified memory on systems with M1 Max and up to 128GB of unified memory on systems with M1 Ultra and is also capable of 18 streams of 8K ProRes 422 video playback. And the SSD in Mac Studio has a performance of up to 7.4GB/s and a capacity of up to 8TB, allowing users to work on large projects with incredible speed and performance.

The Mac Studio also comes with an array of ports which include:

• Four Thunderbolt ports
• A 10Gb Ethernet port
• Two USB-A ports
• An HDMI port
• A pro audio jack
• Two USB-C ports (10Gb/s USB 3 on M1 Max and 40Gb/s Thunderbolt 4 on M1 Ultra)
• An SD card slot

It also features connectivity features such as Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0.

Studio Display

The new Studio Display touts a 27-inch 5K Retina screen with over 14.7 million pixels. With 600 nits of brightness, P3 wide colour, and support for over one billion colours. The Studio DIsplay also comes with True Tone technology that can adjust the colour temperature of the display automatically and boasts low reflectivity through its anti-reflective coating. Apple also offers the Studio Display with a nano-texture glass option that helps reduce glare under bright light environments.

It is built within a slim aluminium body with minimal borders. The display can be tilted up to 30 degrees using the built-in stand. Studio Display also provides a tilt and height-adjustable stand with a counterbalancing arm, as well as a VESA mount adapter with landscape or portrait orientation support.

Under the hood, the Studio Display is powered by a Bionic A13 chip and includes a 12MP Ultra-Wide camera with the Centre Stage feature that automatically centres the user during video calls when they move around. Apart from that, the Studio Display comes with a three-microphone setup and a high-fidelity six-speaker sound system that supports Dolby Atmos. The speakers feature four force-cancelling woofers and two high-performance tweeters as well.

In terms of connectivity, the Studio Display comes with three USB Type-C ports with speeds of up to 10Gb/s and a Thunderbolt port that can deliver 96W of power to a Mac notebook. Accompanying the Studio Display are several optional accessories that include a silver-and-black coloured Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, Magic Trackpad, and Magic Mouse.

Price and availability

The retail price for the Mac Studio starts at RM8,799 for the M1 Max variant while the M1 Ultra variant starts at an eye-watering RM16,799. The Studio Display, on the other hand, comes with a retail price starting from RM6,999 for the standard version and RM8,299 for the nano-texture glass version. As for the Studio Display accessories, the silver-and-black coloured Magic Keyboard with Touch ID retails at RM729, Magic Trackpad at RM569, and Magic Mouse at RM379. Both the Mac Studio and the Studio Display and all the accessories are available for purchase through Apple’s website.

Pokdepinion: Woah the Mac Studio packs some serious power! Sounds like the perfect tool for those that are in production.