Apple are bringing the studio home with Mac Studio and Studio Display
Apple has announced the all-new Mac Studio and Studio Display, two new items designed to give users a studio like experience, but at home. Check out the below video to get an overview of what each product has to offer.
The Mac Studio is about the same rough shape as the Mac Mini, just a lot thicker.
“We couldn’t be more excited to introduce an entirely new Mac desktop and display with Mac Studio and Studio Display,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “Mac Studio ushers in a new era for the desktop with unbelievable performance powered by M1 Max and M1 Ultra, an array of connectivity and a compact design that puts everything users need within easy reach. And Studio Display — with its stunning 5K Retina screen, along with the best combination of camera and audio ever in a desktop display — is in a class of its own.”
Powered by either M1 Max or M1 Ultra, Mac Studio delivers extraordinary CPU and GPU performance, more unified memory than any other Mac, and new capabilities that no other desktop can achieve. With M1 Max, users can take their creative workflows to new levels, and for those requiring even more computing power, M1 Ultra is the next giant leap for Apple silicon, delivering breath-taking performance to Mac Studio. M1 Ultra builds on M1 Max and features the all-new UltraFusion architecture that interconnects the die of two M1 Max chips, creating a system on a chip (SoC) with unprecedented levels of performance and capabilities, and consisting of 114 billion transistors, the most ever in a personal computer chip.
To show how much of a powerhouse the new M1 Ultra and M1 Max chips are, here is what the Mac Studio can do, compared to their 27-inch iMac.
Up to 2.5x faster CPU performance than the fastest 27-inch iMac with 10-core processor.
Up to 3.8x faster CPU performance than the fastest 27-inch iMac with 10-core processor.
Of course, the other half of this announcement is the all new Studio Display. The screen is designed to perfectly complement the Mac Studio, but will also pair with any Mac. In a class of its own, it features a gorgeous 27-inch 5K Retina screen, plus sensational camera and audio, delivering that integrated experience Mac users love.
Studio Display brings a stunning all-screen design with narrow borders and a refined, all-aluminium enclosure that houses an advanced set of features in a slim profile. Its built-in stand allows the user to tilt the display up to 30 degrees. To meet the needs of a variety of workspaces, Studio Display also offers a tilt- and height-adjustable stand option with a counterbalancing arm that makes the display feel weightless as it is adjusted. A VESA mount adapter option is also available, and supports landscape or portrait orientation for even more flexibility.
If this looks very familiar to you, it does have a similar profile of the iMac that was released last year, just without the colours. While it is paired with the Mac Studio in the marketing, the device doesn’t have to be locked to it, because the Studio Display will work with any Mac product, as shown below.
Finally we have to talk price, both the Mac Studio and Studio Display can be ordered today from Apple and will start shipping on March 18, with them also arriving into selected stores on the same day.
Mac Studio starts at $3,099 and goes up, depending on internal configurations, where as the Studio Display is priced at $2,499.
