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So I just watched the Apple Event today. Have to say I am mightily impressed with the new offerings!
M1 Ultra and the new Mac Studio is certainly stunning and amazing an achievement.
But the one thing that I found amusing out of the presentation was the comparison made with the Mac Pro. Who in their right mind could afford to compare it with the more expensive Mac Pro? That basically means they will be losing a good chunk of their MP sales. That said a fully specced Mac Studio with 128GB of RAM and 8TB drive at $8,000 is still roughly 1/5th the cost of a fully specced 1.5TB RAM 8TB SSD 28-core Xeon Mac Pro at $52,000 (which includes the $400 wheels). If anyone should be happy about this new system, I think it would be the content creators who do heavy video editing ala Youtube and the MTV tribe.
That said my only concern about this new system is the reliability of it all. No doubt the CPU & GPU working together with the unified memory as one die is going to place a huge amount of pressure on the die itself. I guess that explains the massive fans they've put in this new system? How long the combined CPU will last under typical workloads on a daily basis compared with say PC based hackintoshes or even older MPs we really don't yet know. If they fail you can replace the parts separately on a hackintosh, but not on the Mac Studio.
M1 Ultra and the new Mac Studio is certainly stunning and amazing an achievement.
But the one thing that I found amusing out of the presentation was the comparison made with the Mac Pro. Who in their right mind could afford to compare it with the more expensive Mac Pro? That basically means they will be losing a good chunk of their MP sales. That said a fully specced Mac Studio with 128GB of RAM and 8TB drive at $8,000 is still roughly 1/5th the cost of a fully specced 1.5TB RAM 8TB SSD 28-core Xeon Mac Pro at $52,000 (which includes the $400 wheels). If anyone should be happy about this new system, I think it would be the content creators who do heavy video editing ala Youtube and the MTV tribe.
That said my only concern about this new system is the reliability of it all. No doubt the CPU & GPU working together with the unified memory as one die is going to place a huge amount of pressure on the die itself. I guess that explains the massive fans they've put in this new system? How long the combined CPU will last under typical workloads on a daily basis compared with say PC based hackintoshes or even older MPs we really don't yet know. If they fail you can replace the parts separately on a hackintosh, but not on the Mac Studio.