trs96
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte B460M Aorus Pro
- CPU
- i5-10500
- Graphics
- RX 570
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
The base model $1,999 Mac Studio destroys the base model 2019 Mac Pro in every benchmark you can throw at them. All while costing 4,000 USD less. The Studio keeps the old USB A ports, headphone jack and HDMI 2.0 port. Front USB C at 10Gb/S. Front SD card reader which was completely unexpected. It uses a fraction of the power that the MP cheese grater does. I think that MP has something like a 1.4 kilowatt PSU in it.
There's really not much to complain about here other than no PCIe expansion but you do have those 4 TH4 ports that you can also connect hubs to for more TH4. The only downside for me would be no options to run Catalina or older macOS versions that I want to keep using. That's where hackintoshes come in and solve that problem. If I were editing video all day long I'd order the M1 Max version today. Since that's not my line of work I probably won't buy one this year but possibly in a few years.
There's really not much to complain about here other than no PCIe expansion but you do have those 4 TH4 ports that you can also connect hubs to for more TH4. The only downside for me would be no options to run Catalina or older macOS versions that I want to keep using. That's where hackintoshes come in and solve that problem. If I were editing video all day long I'd order the M1 Max version today. Since that's not my line of work I probably won't buy one this year but possibly in a few years.
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