Mac Studio Out of the Box: Expandable Full

preface

On March 9, 2022, Apple held a spring new product launch, in which mac pro was absent from this conference, replaced by a new studio product line, Apple said pro will see you later, leaving endless reverie for everyone.

The styling part is like a thicker Mac mini, and the focus of the upgrade is on this processor.

Mac Studio is equipped with a new M1 Ultra processor, cpu part up to 20 core processor, including 16 performance cores and 4 energy efficiency cores, 64 core GPU, 8 times the performance of the M1 processor, within a year, a Mac Studio than a high-end desktop computer, energy consumption is reduced by 1000 kWh, with the industry's leading performance and energy consumption ratio.

A Mac Studio previously ordered by the charging head network has finally arrived, and this time a wave of unboxing has been carried out.

Unbox

Express over is a corrugated box, the side of the box has easy to tear strips, the details are still quite intimate.

There is also a cloth handle on the top of the main box, and the packaging is too careful, and it may be to avoid the use of plastic.

The version ordered here is the M1 Max chip with 32GB of unified memory and 512GB of storage.

In order to save ink, only the appearance of the product is printed on the front.

On the back of the box is a diagram of the back interface of the product.

The entire Mac Studio is secured by cardboard and doesn't look very environmentally friendly...

By the way, there is a power cord in the package, and if you want to enjoy the high-speed Thunderbolt interface, you have to prepare it yourself.

The Mac Studio looks like a silver box, the workmanship is still very apple (this is a positive evaluation), and the silver gray shell is a black apple logo on top, which is very decorative.

The Mac Studio interface is very rich, from left to right, there are 4 Thunderbolt 4 interfaces, 1 network cable port, 1 power interface, 2 USB-A interfaces, 1 HDMI interface and 3.5mm headphone ports.

On the front are 2 USB-C ports and a TF/SD card connector.

The bottom remains a thermal opening, non-slip pads, and Mac Studio's embossed logo.

There is a line of small print below, Apple California design, Chinese assembly, model A2615, support broadband voltage input.

In addition to the main unit, an additional power cord is included.

One end of the power cord is a grounding three-pin, and the other end is a pin.

The word pin end is printed on silk screen Apple B15 2.5A 250V~.

The length of the power cord is approximately 184cm.

Light up

After introducing the product, the following directly light it up, boot.

Still familiar with the operation process, choose the language, some boot settings.

Although the system is the latest macOS Monterey, the interface has not changed much.

The rich interface allows mac Studio to connect more peripherals, and the four Thunderbolt 4 interfaces and HDMI interfaces on the back can support the expansion of more 4K or even higher resolution displays.

And it, the Mac Studio, is inconspicuous on the table, and the silver-gray shell, coupled with the Apple logo on the top, looks like an ornament, but it is not only pleasant in appearance, but also excellent in terms of performance.

Three 4K displays are connected here using 3 Thunderbolt 4 interfaces, making it easy and stress-free.

Connect the other end of the cable to the Raiden 3 hdD enclosure, which contains the Samsung 970 EVO SSD.

Using the Disk Speed Test speed measurement APP to test the transmission speed of the wire, the measured write speed is about 1466MB/s, and the read speed is about 2858MB/s, which is the performance of the transmission speed of Raiden 3, which has run full of the upper limit of Raiden 3 transmission. Because the author does not have a hard disk box that supports the Raiden 4 transmission protocol, it is not possible to test the transmission speed of The Thunderbolt 4.

Charging head net summary

As the first Apple device to support Raiden 4, I believe that it will soon be popularized to the MacBook product line, and then the Raiden 4 accessories will set off a frenzy, of course, the existing Raiden 3 accessories are not bad to use.

Simple out-of-the-box ends here, as in the past, Mac Studio is like a dedicated computer, invincible in its optimized video editing, code translation and other projects, and in scenarios like games, don't ask for too much, it is good to run...

So this is the happy machine for part-time work, before purchasing, you must see whether your working environment is suitable for the ARM architecture, so as to exert the true strength of this host.