With the Mac Studio and its M1 Ultra, Apple still signs a particularly interesting machine. It works well, especially with hardware accelerated applications, even with the latest generation high-end AMD and Intel processors and Nvidia RTX graphics cards… #TestApple #MacStudio #M1Ultra 7 Apple’s Mac Studio has been the first computer to integrate the M1 Ultra chip, and it promised very good performance in a very compact body, all in silence. Apple’s new Mac Studio, bigger than the Mac Mini but much smaller than the Mac Pro, intends to reconcile the two worlds in a compact and silent format that houses the manufacturer’s new flagship chip: the M1 Ultra. While there are also cheaper Mac Studios with the M1 Max (starting at €2299), the M1 Ultra version starts at full price: €4599 for the 48 GPU core version and €5749 for the 64 GPU core version. Apple promised top-notch performance when announcing the new computer, but what exactly is it? To find out, we compared it to competing processors and graphics cards. Unlike the Mac Mini, turning on the Mac M1 by itself seems very difficult. In any case, we cannot upgrade the computer because everything is soldered to the motherboard, RAM and SSD. We know that Apple is reluctant to let users (and unofficial repairers) modify its computers, too bad for the repairability of the machine. There is a vent under the case which serves as an air inlet, the flow of which is denied at the rear above the connector. Apple is once again a master in managing the temperature and silence of computers. In office automation, the ventilation is inaudible, and you have to start several resource-intensive software at the same time to really start. Nevertheless, the results are impressive, since we only obtained 33.7 dB with the sound level meter (50 cm from the computer), which is barely perceptible. Connectivity is also a little different, as the M1 Ultra version has an SDXC (UHS II) card reader and two Thunderbolt 4 ports on the front, while the M1 Max version has two USB-C 3.2 ports. classics. On the back, this time there are four Thunderbolt 4 ports, a SuperSpeed 10 Gb / s Ethernet port, two USB-A 3.2 ports, an HDMI 2.0 port and a headphone output. Finally, we connect to the network via wifi 6 and bluetooth 5.0. The Mac Studio is nearly identical in design to the Mac Mini, though significantly larger to accommodate the M1 Ultra chip and a new fan system. We found anodized aluminum frames
