keithw

danox said:

At this point, I hope Apple will finally take action and introduce a two-year upgrade cycle for the Mac Studio and Mac Pro, especially considering the significant cost involved. The uncertainty surrounding their release cycles has been excessive for potential buyers.

Apple Silicon enables Apple to redesign the Mac Pro tower, making it more compact and efficient. A design that reduces the current Mac Pro tower’s size by at least a third would be nice. For instance, a size of (15.4 in x 3.7 in) would be suitable, and coincidentally happens to be the size of two Mac Studios turned 90° and stacked on top of each other.

In any case, hopefully the new design will be something that they can live with and iterate over the course of time. Apple has to eliminate the uncertainty of the release dates for their higher end desktop machines they simply cost too much.

I find it interesting that we've seen no (at least I don't think we have)  pictures of the current M4 Max chip.  It we had, we could plainly see the interconnect at the bottom of the chip if there is indeed one.  My bet (and it's just a wild guess) is that the Ultra will be a single large chip, not 2 Maxes interconnected together.

Mike Wuerthele said:

keithw said:

Totally disagree about the Studio. For pros who need the graphics power, RAM, and CPU, the Studio will again be a good choice once they finally update it to the M4 Max and M4 Ultra.  Right now, it's a terrible choice and nobody should buy it.  I need the power of the M4 Max but I'd rather get a Studio than a MBP, which I don't really want of need. I'm guessing the M4 Max chip wouldn't even fit inside the new mini and the thermals would not work either.  Bring on the M4 Studio, sooner rather than later.

I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with?

The guy who said it was a "hideous monstrosity."

Totally disagree about the Studio. For pros who need the graphics power, RAM, and CPU, the Studio will again be a good choice once they finally update it to the M4 Max and M4 Ultra.  Right now, it's a terrible choice and nobody should buy it.  I need the power of the M4 Max but I'd rather get a Studio than a MBP, which I don't really want of need. I'm guessing the M4 Max chip wouldn't even fit inside the new mini and the thermals would not work either.  Bring on the M4 Studio, sooner rather than later.