Apple's Mac Studio with the powerful M1 Ultra chip is great but some people
including myself has speculated that the Mac Studio is a one-off product that
Apple will simply cancel and replace with a Mac Pro or maybe even the iMac
Pro but that is wrong yes we just got a huge leak that confirms Apple's
long-term plans for the Mac Studio and they're more long term than you think so
in this video I'm gonna go through all the leaks and rumors including the
release date the specs and how it's going to impact the rest of the Apple
silicon Mac lineup the leagues start with Mark Grumman the best apple leaker
out there and he just gave us a new power on newsletter Edition yesterday
talking about what's coming at WWDC getting right into that Bloomberg
article you can see that we have the new reality headset basically Apple's VR
headset the new xros operating system some new MacBooks that we just talked
about in a previous video yo and he also mentioned the Mac Studio he only gave us
one sentence on it but it is very very important he says there are two Mac
Studio follow-ups planned but their timing is less clear so in this video we
gotta figure out what timing is actually going to be used for the Mac Studio
updates and when we should get them but of course the one thing that's the most
important to look at is that the Mac Studio is not a one-off stopgap product
just like we had with the iMac Pro which I loved I used it for years for editing
videos and that was discontinued it's not going to happen like that with the
Mac Studio we're getting two more models but in terms of the Max studio being
updated with the M2 Ultra chip this year I personally don't think it's happening
and it has to do with this leak from Mark German he confirmed that the Mac
Pro is no longer getting the 4 40 core M2 extreme chip yes he said that the Mac
Pro isn't testing what that specific chip is getting canceled which means
it's going to be limited to the M2 Ultra the same chip that we would expect to
come in the Max studio so because of that he literally says Apple may not
launch the updated Mac Studio with the M2 Ultra chip due to similarity with the
upcoming Mac Pro and the idea there is why would you buy a Mac Pro for
thousands of dollars maybe five six thousand dollars with an M2 Ultra chip
if you could just buy the very small and portable Mac Studio with the same M2
Ultra chip yes the Mac Pro is going to have further expandability changing
things out maybe putting some custom Apple GPU cards but if you just need
that powerful M2 Ultra chip just buy the Mac Studio and I think that's why apple
is skipping on the M2 Ultra model of the max Zoom Studio they're probably going
to wait and the question is how long now the first hint actually came from Mark
German's newsletter just yesterday because he said that all of those Macs
including the Mac Pro should go on sale either sometime this year or next year
and that basically includes the 15 inch air the updated 13-inch air and entry
level 13 inch MacBook Pro a 24 inch iMac updated high-end MacBook Pro Models and
the Mac Pro all of those either this year or early
2024 and since we know that the Max studio is going to be clashing with the
Mac Pro which by the way is likely to get revealed or announced at WWDC
because of recent developer log leaks we know that the Mac Studio probably has to
get pushed out even further than that and this basically means that although
Mark German says the Max studio still has two more updates to go I'd don't
think it's going to be part of the M2 Chip family I think it's going to get
delayed until the M3 family of chips with the M3 Max and M3 Ultra chips which
is great because it is going to be on the new three nanometer process
technology from tsmc so it's going to be a lot more efficient and Powerful so
that's a good sign but unfortunately we have to wait even longer however this is
kind of disappointing to me knowing that it's getting delayed until the M3 Ultra
and then even after that there's another Mac Studio coming because the Mac Studio
was a replacement for the iMac Pro which I loved and I like it so much better
than the Mac Studio since everything's built into one package and we do have
leaks of Apple testing a new 27 inch iMac with apple silicon which is a
prototype that shows that apple is interested in bringing it back but if
there are two more Mac Studio refreshes coming then it makes it seem like the
iMac Pro might get delayed even longer than expected and then even further if
the Mac Studio is skipping the M2 altered chip then that suggests a three
year update cycle so imagine having to wait another three years after the M3
Ultra Max studio comes that might mean a long time for the Revival of the iMac
Pro and then now we have to answer the final question if apple is canceling the
M2 Ultra Max studio and waiting for the M3 Ultra then when is it actually going
to be getting released so let's dig through all the leaks and try to figure
it out one thing we know for sure is that the Mac Studio with the M1 Ultra
came about four and a half months after the M1 Pro and Max chips were unveiled
in the 14 in 16 inch MacBook Pros and then the M1 Max chip came about 11
months after the M1 but there were reports that those MacBook Pros were
delayed due to mini LED display chip shortages and they were supposed to come
at WWDC in June of 2021 instead which would be about half a year after the M1
chip released and then we also know that the M2 Chip came out in the summer of
2022 and we got the M2 Pro and Max around half a year later basically
matching up to the timeline of the M1 family of chips if you don't count all
of the delays that ended up happening so as far as the release date of the next
Mac Studio with the M3 Ultra chip it's all going to depend on when the M3 chip
gets released according to gregorman's recent reports the M3 chip likely isn't
coming until the fall of this year with the new Macbook Air and then counting at
least half a year after that the M3 Pro and M3 Max ships should either come in
the spring or summer of 2024 and then another half a year later would mean
that the M3 Ultra would come come in the fall of 2024 in the Max studio however
just like the other two chip families we had some issues that caused delays so I
think we could even be waiting until this spring of 2025 for another Mac
Studio refresh if we have more delays come around which would put the Mac
Studio at a three-year timeline exactly and with that said because of all of
that here is my advice if you're looking for a good desktop Apple silicon Mac
just buy the M2 Pro Mac Mini right now if you need a good machine because the
M2 Ultra chip is likely only going into the Mac Pro and it's going to be very
expensive so it doesn't make sense for a lot of people I would even go as far as
to say you should just wait for the M3 MacBook Air or the M3 iMac if you need a
desktop because that Chip is going to be super efficient and very very powerful
in terms of single core performance so it's going to be very Snappy and I even
made a video recently calculating the performance of the M3 chip and it should
outperform the bend M2 Pro chip model and that means it's going to be very
very powerful and likely powerful enough for you guys who need it for
productivity as well so that is my recommendation unfortunately we have to
wait a while for the Mac Studio but I think that is okay let me know your
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