New Mac Studio
Mar 9, 2022 10:55:20 #
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Mar 9, 2022 15:29:56 #
hpucker99 wrote:
Don't have a Mac Mini to replace, but a 2013 27" iMac. Not sure if Apple is going to come out with an updated Apple Silicon 27" model. There is a large price gap between the base 24" iMac ($1299) and the new Studio Mac with Apple monitor ($3598), so I'm hoping that Apple fills this gap. I'll probably wait until this summer or fall and see what happens to the 27" iMac and Mac Pro although I'm sure the latter will be way out of my price range.
The removal of the Intel 27 iMac unceremoniously ye sterday makes me think there will not be a replacement. The Studio and monitor are it.
Mar 9, 2022 23:09:12 #
JD750 wrote:
To answer OPs question, I might get one for work, when we go back to the office, as a replacement for my MacPro “trash can” model. I say “might” because I’m not sure if the Studio can drive three monitors. If it can drive 3 monitors I will get one.
It can drive three or five 6K displays, plus a 4KTV, depending on which processor you get.
Mar 9, 2022 23:27:09 #
TonyBot wrote:
OK, how many Mac Mini owners are going to line up for the Studio?
Not too many folks need the power of the Studio. It is made for serious creative professionals doing lots of heavy lifting, such as editing and rendering Hollywood A-List movies, massive audio recording projects, software development, animation, mathematical modeling, etc.
The top end Mac Studio has 114 billion transistors, 20 CPU cores, 64 GPU cores, 32 Neural Engine cores, 128 GB Unified (RAM/VRAM) memory, 8 TB of extremely fast (7.4 GB/sec) SSD storage, 800 GB/sec internal memory bus bandwidth, hardware encoders/decoders galore for H.264, H.265, and ProRes video...
This is a $8000 (when fully loaded) box that is 7.7 inches by 7.7 inches by 3.4 inches. It outruns a $52,000 28-core XEON Mac Pro by a wide margin.
If all you do is email, spreadsheets, word processing, web browsing, and some light photo editing, get a Late 2020 M1 Mac mini, or a 24" iMac.
Apple built this to be an affordable powerful desktop machine for pros. Most of the YouTubers who review computers have ordered one or several of these to test them and let us know what they do in the real world. We'll start to see those reviews next week, because the computer ships on the 15th.
Mar 10, 2022 08:24:58 #
I suspect that the major advantage of the M1 for most people is the battery life.
Mar 10, 2022 09:36:52 #
[quote=burkphoto]/snip/.
"If all you do is email, spreadsheets, word processing, web browsing, and some light photo editing, get a Late 2020 M1 Mac mini, or a 24" iMac."
Yup. That's where my $ is gonna go - to the M1 Mini.
But, the Studio sure makes the GAS rumble around. (and so does a Beech Staggerwing!)
"If all you do is email, spreadsheets, word processing, web browsing, and some light photo editing, get a Late 2020 M1 Mac mini, or a 24" iMac."
Yup. That's where my $ is gonna go - to the M1 Mini.
But, the Studio sure makes the GAS rumble around. (and so does a Beech Staggerwing!)
Mar 10, 2022 10:00:42 #
TonyBot wrote:
OK, how many Mac Mini owners are going to line up for the Studio?
I am looking into it to replace a 2013 model Mac Pro. Has everything except an HDMI port.
Mar 10, 2022 10:02:39 #
hpucker99 wrote:
Don't have a Mac Mini to replace, but a 2013 27" iMac. Not sure if Apple is going to come out with an updated Apple Silicon 27" model. There is a large price gap between the base 24" iMac ($1299) and the new Studio Mac with Apple monitor ($3598), so I'm hoping that Apple fills this gap. I'll probably wait until this summer or fall and see what happens to the 27" iMac and Mac Pro although I'm sure the latter will be way out of my price range.
Wire Cutter advises passing on the new Apple monitor and consider their recommendation of the Dell 27” 4K display. That should soften the bite and you’ll have a super fast high performance photo editing setup.
Mar 10, 2022 10:12:57 #
Walkabout08 wrote:
Wire Cutter advises passing on the new Apple monitor and consider their recommendation of the Dell 27” 4K display. That should soften the bite and you’ll have a super fast high performance photo editing setup.
Or if you already have a good monitor just keep it. I use an NEC Multisync PA322UHD monitor - 32" of viewing pleasure.
Mar 10, 2022 11:11:55 #
BobHartung wrote:
I am looking into it to replace a 2013 model Mac Pro. Has everything except an HDMI port.
The Mac Studio machines I looked up had a HDMI port!
Mar 10, 2022 11:27:52 #
cjc2 wrote:
The Mac Studio machines I looked up had a HDMI port!
I'll have to recheck specs. Thanks.
Mar 10, 2022 12:58:59 #
Not really studio related directly but tangentially…
Looking for a 5K monitor to use for LR with my M1 Pro MBP and was looking at the LG…then Apple also released the new display. I e seen numerous previous reports that the LGs are fine for LR/PS, and the Apple one is more expensive and has a bunch of Apple specific features that I couldn’t care less about. Saw one report on the tidbits mailing list that claimed the LGs sucked…asked for clarification…so far the only one is that Mac press lives them because LG guys advertising, waiting on other ideas there.
Reports seem to indicate that the new monitor uses the same panel as the old 2u iMac recently cancelled…so IQ should be about the same as the iMac was.
So…anybody with experience with both the iMac and the LG who can offer IQ opinions?
Looking for a 5K monitor to use for LR with my M1 Pro MBP and was looking at the LG…then Apple also released the new display. I e seen numerous previous reports that the LGs are fine for LR/PS, and the Apple one is more expensive and has a bunch of Apple specific features that I couldn’t care less about. Saw one report on the tidbits mailing list that claimed the LGs sucked…asked for clarification…so far the only one is that Mac press lives them because LG guys advertising, waiting on other ideas there.
Reports seem to indicate that the new monitor uses the same panel as the old 2u iMac recently cancelled…so IQ should be about the same as the iMac was.
So…anybody with experience with both the iMac and the LG who can offer IQ opinions?
Mar 10, 2022 13:19:02 #
neillaubenthal wrote:
Not really studio related directly but tangentiall... (show quote)
I have a 27" LG as a second monitor on my iMac PRO. Couldn't tell the difference. When/if I buy a Studio, I will also buy an Apple monitor
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