Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Am I becoming a hater? (Mac Studio Review)”.
Are my expectations too? High has my view of apple and their products shifted because everyone’s noticing something poor, jonathan horst, i feel like he’s gotten so much more cynical about apples since he started working. I really think so. What have i changed or has apple look at the settings page like it’s just insane, how small the buttons are. People who sit near me at the office note that i moan a lot sometimes about things that are trivial and sometimes about things that are not. In my recent videos, i spent a lot of time complaining about the input cable placement on two otherwise beautifully designed displays. I’Ve complained about the iphone se’s aged form, factor and increased price, and i’ve questioned why the latest ipads need an m1. Though that’s been answered in its own annoying way, oh and then there are all the policy choices. The scrappy underdog days of apple are long over and what we’re left with is such a big and powerful company decisions. They make impact billions of people, and so with power that immense they basically become a political institution.
That means people are rightly frustrated about things like developer relations, repair restrictions, heck even updates. I don’t view having a little bit of skepticism as a bad thing in tech journalism. One has to be a curmudgeon whizbang. Marketers are very good at conjuring up excitement for their latest products and it’s very easy to be swept up in it all.
I know this and i try very hard not to be, but i don’t know sometimes i worry that my healthy skepticism might transform into malignant cynicism and who wants to watch that guy. Wouldn’T you rather watch someone who’s ecstatic about what they’re covering and yet here i am with a brand new kitted out mac studio. Yet i have more criticism than i was expecting, which is why i haven’t done a video on it.
Yet we ordered a fully rammed up m1 ultra model, alongside a base m1 max model for anthony to compare both sides of the performance spectrum which you can check out over at ltt. That m1 ultra model, however, because it was custom, took months to arrive. So when i sat behind this m1 max model and did some of my own testing, i realized that it performs just as well as an equivalent macbook pro.
The m1 max is amazing in a laptop, but on a desktop. The expectations are a little different, you’re plugged into a wall, and the enclosure is bigger, so you can cool more efficiency, isn’t as beneficial. I mean i should concede that this hardware efficiency is actually really beneficial out here in the beach i mean we’re running this off battery, so i couldn’t really wax poetic about the performance.
So what else is there to talk about? The mac studio takes on the form of a much taller mac mini it’s a nice, if not dated design and in a funny irony apple now has the hardware efficiency to do the radical designs they did in the past, and yet this is what we got. Something based on a computer that was always meant to be cheap, which this is not you know, mac address, doesn’t have a website, wait eddie. How did linus media group make their website squarespace really wait? Are they sponsoring this video yep? Oh well, then, i should probably get started, which will be easy with squarespace’s all-in-one platform.
They have tons of mobile, supporting templates for everything we need now and third-party extensions that can help expand our site with other platforms. We might need in the future, and andy just told me that if you head to squarespace.com mac address, you can get 10 off your first purchase. I should do that and then there’s the framing, that apple launched the mac studio with on the website and in the presentation they compared the mac studio to a fully specced imac in a mid-range mac pro. And yes, when you price out an m1 max apple studio with a display keyboard and mouse, it comes out to the exact same price as a fully equipped 2020 imac at 3 900.
The m1 ultra model, on the other hand, looks less like a mac pro and more like a successor to the long discontinued imac pro, because look both come out to six thousand dollars so where’s the mid-range desktop. You can get an m1 in a mac mini or imac, or you can get an m1 max or ultra for that matter. In this the m1 pro, which is a good balance, isn’t available. If you need more cpu power, you have to jump up to the m1 max then, and that might have more gpu power than you otherwise need to say nothing of the jump to the m1 ultra. So my response to the mac studio is that it’s a decent but confused computer, offering only a smattering of value for a select group of professionals who are probably still better off waiting for the apps. They rely on to better support, apple’s new architecture.
If you buy a fully spec 2020 imac, you don’t have to feel bad see. I really had high expectations for the mac studio and, while others were really enthusiastic about it, i for some reason was unimpressed. I think they wanted to make a 27-inch imac, but for some reason they couldn’t so we were left with these in their compromises. There’S that cynicism again, i think i need to take some time to appreciate some of the great things apple has done, much of which, during the pandemic, i love that the iphone 13 mini exists. No one else makes a phone this capable and this small. I still love how personal and colorful the imac is making it a statement piece for the home. I love the silent performance of the macbook air. I love their track pads. I love their overall build quality and reliability. I love seeing the return and inclusion of important io and i do like that apple listens, albeit very stubbornly. I mean we did get the mac pro in 2019.
We avoided a bad user interface design in safari last year and we could now repair our devices at home. I’M not gon na list. The caveats: i’m not gon na list the caveats across the caveats.
We are going to begin the transition from the power pc to intel processors. Architecture transitions are hard and really annoying. Apples going through their third there’s bound to be growing pains in more powerful and demanding applications like the ones the mac studio is designed for they are amplified and harder to fix. So criticism can sound and feel cynical, but i still have hope, as the hardware engineers slip into their iterative update, cadence the hard work they put into. Chip efficiency will be taken advantage by developers and the designers will be able to express themselves better, they’ve already done it with the imac and the macbook pro. We just need a little bit of patience. I also have hope that, as real political institutions recognize, the power apple has they’ll, create finding policies that’ll help the tech industry flourish with innovation like it did in the more competitive days. Criticism and cynicism aren’t the same thing, but too much criticism can be a bad thing because you can forget to recognize really great accomplishments.
I at the very least, want to remain balanced, enthused and excited for what’s to come now. On the other hand, i won’t be changing my tune about facebook or uber. Don’T even get me started on those thanks for listening to this therapy. I mean mac address now, if you like, the mac studio, give this video a like and if you’re excited about.
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