Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “NEW Mac Studio + Studio Display Unboxing & First Impressions!”.
What’S going on guys, it’s your average consumer, and today we got some new apple stuff, so you guys might have heard about the new announcements that apple made with their new iphones. They got a couple of new colors new iphone se, but the bigger news was their new mac studio. So that’s what we’ve got over here and we’ve also got their new monitor over here, so we’re gon na unbox. Both of these check them out maybe do a little testing and see what these are like.
So i guess we’ll start off with the mac. Right makes sense all right, let’s see here so we’ve got a few things see: we’ve got their magic, mouse, magic track pad and magic keyboard. Oh a touch id like it didn’t even occur to me that the full keyboard came out with touch id.
We saw the smaller versions without the number pad for the colorful imac that they released recently, but that just goes to show you that if you pick up a brand new mac studio, these won’t be included. [ Applause ] fancy box; okay apple. So if you haven’t heard this thing is an absolute powerhouse in a very compact body. Now it is a bit larger than like your standard mac mini it’s kind of like two mac minis stacked on top of each other uh, but it comes with a ton of power. Now these mac studios come with two chip options, one being the m1 max which we’ve seen on their current macbook pros, and it also comes with a brand new m1 ultra chip, which is basically two m1 maxes put together, and it just unlocks a load of power. Apparently, this thing is more powerful than the mac pros that we just bought. I’M not mad, really, i’m not, but either way, let’s get to unboxing this thing satisfying. So let’s see okay. So what we’ve got paperwork over here at the top we’ve got stickers. We got um the labels for all of the ports, so follow the arrows and you can just take it out.
I mean here we have it uh, it’s not bad you’re, not gon na you’re, not gon na. Take this thing around with you, oh, but you can. If you want it here, jay try it out, don’t drop it! Please really! You got ta work out my man, so we also get a power, cable and honestly, that’s about it. There’S nothing else in the box very, very minimalist! That’S the apple way, but i am digging the nice braided cable here.
This thing is: that’s quality baby. This is nice. All right, lift this! So, oh that cold metal, though that’s that’s kind of nice. So this is the mac studio perfect for a studio setting like ours, but let’s take a look at what you get in terms of like i o and ports, so you’ve got in the back four thunderbolt 4 ports, ethernet port over here, your power, two usb a’s Hdmi, a headphone jack power now in the front you’ve got two usbc ports.
If you opt for the m1 ultra, these are going to be thunderbolt 4. But since this isn’t the ultra, it’s just regular usbc. I really wish they were all thunderbolt 4, but that’s a lot of thunderbolt 4 port, so it kind of makes sense that the ultra is the one that gets that now.
What’S crazy, guys, listen! 2. 000 bucks! You can start with the m1 max 2000 bucks. So i don’t know if you guys saw when we checked out the newest macbooks, it outperformed our mac pros, and since this one has the same m1 chip inside of it chances are.
This is going to outperform those as well now, what’s crazy, guys, listen! Our macs are like 20, something thousand bucks each and it outperformed it. That is absolutely insane, and that just goes to show you what these m1 chips are capable of, and i can only imagine the ultras, probably otherworldly and max studio with m1 ultra takes performance to a whole other dimension. But we’ll talk about that when we get our hands on it now, we’ve also got the new monitor.
So let’s unbox that too, all right, i’m just going to keep the box down there. So this is the brand new studio display. Now i was so worried when they announced when they showed that there was going to be a display.
I was like, oh my god, they’re announcing a display. I just bought a bunch of xdr displays. I’Ve wasted money all around this, isn’t quite on the level of the xdr displays, thank god, but this is supposed to be a really high quality display for honestly a fraction of the price. So this is going to be a 27 inch, 5k retina display. But it’s going to have the same, pretty much a similar form factor to the xdr display, but it comes with a built-in stand and yeah. You know no extra stand, but you can pay for different stand options uh, but this thing can go up to about 2. 000, bucks altogether, all right so we’re gon na lay it down, and this is the display. Okay, so we’ve got our thunderbolt cable over here and some some paperwork.
Oh you know what i didn’t. Even i didn’t even notice that the power cable is attached to the stand. Oh, it comes plugged in interesting. Can it be removed? Of course it can be removed right yeah.
It can be removed, we’ll just get this off. First before i keep going. Oh, my i’m destroying this i’m doing a room yeah, i’m just doing a really bad job over here. Oh my god.
There we go so this one has the nano coating so you’re not supposed to get glare or anything like that. So if you’re in a room, that’s pretty sunny, this is probably the option that you’re going to want to go for it looks clean though my goodness apple, their products are so clean, it’s ridiculous. So what we’ve got right here is a 12 megapixel web cameras, gon na say, front-facing camera, not a phone uh, but this is a new web camera that they have built into the actual display. It takes advantage of the a13 bionic that’s inside of here, so that it can give you better quality when you’re, of course, using the webcam. It also has the center stage feature so just like what we’ve seen with the ipad, where it can lock in on your face, or even if you walk around it, can follow you and track you all that is possible from this screen now.
This display is also supposed to have really good speakers, so that’s something that kind of sets it apart from other monitors in its category i mean this thing starts at 15.99, not to mention it has the six speakers built into it: the web camera the 18 a13 And it also has a thunderbolt port over here, as well as a few other usbc ports. So you know you’ve got that i’m gon na plug this in we’re gon na take a closer look at it, let’s fiddle around with this stuff. Okay, so let’s uh just go to youtube.
I wan na test out the sound. Let’S do some loaf lo-fi. This is solid. Are you kidding me? Oh, if you put your fingers on here, you can feel the air pressure coming out from the the bass, but it sounds good. It sounds really good, so that is going to be a massive massive differentiator uh from this and other displays like i can, edit with these speakers, with no problem like there’s no way.
I have an issue here so now. Let’S take a look at the here. If i were to do, let’s open up facetime okay, so this is where we start seeing the center stage kick in.
We’Ve got kevin. I got myself j behind the camera, it’s factoring in j, but you might not be able to see because of this bar. So far, color me impressed with the display i like it: webcam isn’t groundbreaking or anything, but it’s probably gon na be just fine uh for any. You know, zoom calls or anything like that and with center stage built into it it’s a nice touch. But more importantly, we got to find out how this mac studio performs all right guys. So, a couple days later, we did some testing with this guy wanted to see what kind of output it has uh check this out now. This might not be something well, if you’re looking at the mac studio, you might.
You should probably be interested in things like this, so we’ve got what nine streams here of 8k footage, and this thing look at this guys. You can scrub through this with no issue whatsoever. Now we did some messing around too uh.
We did prores ak just fine, now, 8k uh red raw footage. I don’t know if there’s a computer out there that can handle that jay. I don’t think.
There’S anybody shooting in ak, besides crazy tech, youtubers and maybe some film studios, but i mean the price to performance ratio that you get out of. This is just absolutely insane now, like i said we did do some testing on our own and the results were actually pretty interesting, so we tested, of course, the max studio with the m1 max, as well as a macbook pro with the m1 max, and, of course, Our mac pro over there now we exported one of our own videos, all prores, with some 8k footage in it, both the mac studio and the macbook pro finished, with an export at about 4 minutes and 50 seconds, which is not surprising, considering it’s the exact same Chip and when we threw it on our mac pro 5 minutes 50 seconds, so it took a minute longer to export on a far more expensive machine, and that was just actually really really eye opening. But what was interesting is we talked about that crazy, red raw footage just being a mess to work with with the m1 max machines it exported at about 10 minutes and 40 seconds, or so i think what 41, but when it came to the mac pro exported In seven minutes, so that’s pretty interesting to me when it’s not a workflow, that’s completely optimized uh with pro res, it seems like there’s still advantages of having the mac pro.
So thankfully, it’s not a complete waste of money that we’ve got over there uh, but it goes to show you that these are also extremely extremely powerful uh, especially if you’re working with prores footage. It’S absolutely insane so with the absolute craziest footage that we have access to. It feels like the mac. Pro still has its value, but i feel like. Overall, this is going to be the overall better value, considering the price difference and the performance that you get out of it and the portability what’s cool is that this is basically the macbook pro, but in a different form factor. So if you want to have like a studio set up where the computer lives, you don’t move it, the mac studio is definitely going to be that option uh.
But if you need something, that’s on the go, the mac pro the macbook pro pretty much. The same thing: it’s crazy that these m1 chips can be in different systems but perform the same and apple even had some other demos that were a little bit outside of our wheelhouse and the kind of things that we do here. But it’s crazy to see that it can perform on all these different levels at a really high level. So the value that you’re getting out of the studio is absolutely insane now apple, says: there’s going to be one more machine, coming, that’s probably going to be at wwdc, so i’m pumped to see that come, but as of right now this is nuts. Now the real test is to get that ultra. I want to compare the ultra to like our mac pro see how it handles red raw footage that might be the missing link.
Jay might be the missing link uh, but that about wraps it up. For this video guys, i want to just give you a quick little unboxing and rundown of how these things perform. What you’re gon na get your hands on, and i’m not mad at it until next article guys, it’s your average consumer. If you want to see more apple content, got a bunch of videos coming so definitely make sure you’re subscribed we’ll catch you guys in the next article. Until then, peace .