- Hey guys, it's Justine.
And I just woke up from a very, very long nap,
and I had this dream (music starting)
that Apple released a new version of the Max Studio
with a brand new chip called the M2 Ultra
where they smashed two M2 max chips together
into one monster chip that will
support 192 gigs of unified memory
and 6 Pro display XD all at once.
But then I remembered it's not a dream at all.
This was announced at WWDC,
and it's actually right here beside me,
the new Mac studio with the M2 Ultra chip.
(taking a deep breath)
I'm sweating.
Actually, I think I'm supposed to open it like this.
I don't really know how you're supposed to open it,
but this feels right.
There it is!
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Look, and then this just folds down.
Okay, you're not supposed to do that.
That was supposed to stay there.
But now it's open.
So, we're just gonna slide it out.
We've got our power cable here,
and I think that's all that's in here.
(closing box)
(taking a deep breath)
It's so beautiful.
I've been trying to think of the best way
to really test out the new Mac Studio,
and if you've ever watched any of my videos,
then you know that I am currently
powering my entire editing desk setup
which consists of an OWC RAID,
multiple backup drives,
two pro-display XTR's,
as well as the Apple Studio Display,
all with my maxed out 14-inch MacBook Pro.
And I absolutely love it for so many reasons.
But in the name of science
and wanting to test this out properly,
I thought I would bite the bullet
and replace my entire editing desk set up
with this Mac Studio
right over here.
Ah, okay.
Let's set it up and we can chat about it.
Now, the Mac Studio was so unique
in Apple's lineup of desktop computers,
because it looks very similar to the Mac Mini,
but a little bit taller and a lot more powerful.
It can be configured with either the M2 Max
or the all new M2 Ultra Chip with a 24 core CPU,
76 core GPU, and 32 core neural engine.
You can choose from 64, 128,
or 192 gigs of unified memory
and up to 8 terabytes
of internal solid state storage.
That is mind blowing.
To create the M2 Ultra,
they literally combined two M2 max chips together
into one massive ultra powerful processor
with 3.3 times faster CPU performance,
up to 6.1 times faster GPU performance,
and up to 5.9 times faster machine learning.
And with all this power,
the M2 ULTRA can support up to 22 streams of 8K footage.
I mean, I can't even begin to imagine a scenario where
that would actually be necessary for me personally,
but I'm sure there are many people out there
who it will be necessary for.
And I'm definitely gonna put that to the test.
The ports on the New Mac Studio also got a big upgrade.
On the front, it has two USBC Thunderbolt four ports
plus an SD XC card reader.
And in the back it has 4 Thunderbolt 4 ports,
10 gigabit ethernet,
2 USBA ports,
an upgraded HDMI port that supports up to 8K resolution,
and of course,
a headphone jack,
plenty of IO to connect almost anything
that your little computer heart desires.
Now, the configuration that I have here
in the studio is an M2 Ultra with a 24 core CPU,
76 core GPU,
and 128 gigs of memory
with 4 terabytes of storage.
It just looks so beautiful
sitting under a monitor on a desk.
Now, having previously already tested
out the Mac Studio with the M1 chip,
I already know how absolutely incredibly powerful it is.
So obviously this one is gonna be able
to do all of the things that that could do and more.
Let's see if I can put 22 streams of 8K
into an 8K timeline.
I mean, it kind of looks like a terrible layout,
but don't judge my design skills.
I threw this together really quick,
but this is running so smooth,
and this is all ProRes, AK,
and I took this out of the A1,
put it in compressor,
converted it to ProRes,
and here we are.
I mean, I think that was a pretty good test.
I think the video's over,
see ya.
Just kidding, there's more.
Armando had this great idea.
He's like, okay,
well, that's impressive,
but put it in an actual timeline of 8K,
10 of--
10 AK streams,
but in a 76,800 by 43,200 timeline
and having them actually all be scaled to AK
inside of this massive timeline.
I was like, hmm, I see you.
Let's try it.
So we freaking did!
And I even added an extra one.
So there's 11 streams of AK,
and this is full actual AK.
Okay, these, I had to make these a little smaller
'cause they didn't fit,
but I did add an extra one in,
and this is running so freaking smooth.
Let me just give you a little,
look at this,
freaking smooth
like butter.
This is, I mean,
this is absolutely mind blowing.
In some Apple demos,
they always love to show you Pixelmator,
pixel, Pixelmator Pro.
So I just thought I would try it
since I've never actually tried it before.
So I'm gonna zoom into this little boat,
and I'm going to select it.
Hello, little boat,
I don't like you.
Go away,
and instantly it's gone.
I mean, I actually did a really good job.
What if I wanna remove this?
Oh, well, that's also gone.
Maybe I'm gonna be using this app a little bit more.
Let's--
Whoa.
Now I see why everyone likes this app.
Remove that.
Oh, okay.
Oh,
oh,
why is this so freaking good?
Oh, I'm sold.
I'm actually gonna be traveling back
to my parents' house and I have a studio display there.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm actually
going to be packing up this Mac Studio
and taking it home with me.
So, I'm super hyped about that,
because I'll be able to take this entire project,
fly home and when I land, I can just dock it.
And this, when you think
about how powerful this is for businesses,
for productions, for studios
to be able to just take this
and transport it
from studio to set,
like it is something that you really easily can do.
Now, if I had a Mac Pro
that's a little bit larger;
don't think I could get on a plane with that
unless I had a very special Pelican case
which I feel like if anyone's gonna do that,
it's 100% gonna be Marquez, not me.
But I could definitely see him doing that.
But I can just easily put this thing
in my backpack,
and take it with me anywhere.
All right, let's load it up
for its East Coast trip to my parents' house.
Do you have your passport?
Is it in your Apple wallet?
There it is.
It's in,
I need the power cable.
All right, it's not so bad.
Pretty light,
but I don't have anything else in my bag.
I still need to put my computer
and my iPad and the rest of my gadgets in here.
So, welcome to my childhood bedroom,
and I'm gonna turn this into my studio.
I've been spending a lot
of time back home at my parents' house,
and having a dedicated setup here is gonna be so awesome.
That's one thing that might be a little bit different.
I have a little bit more equipment in my room now.
I love these little Amaran lights.
I brought these home for my studio,
so I'm able to use this to light different things.
They're so small and portable,
and I don't have a lot of room in my bedrooms.
So, these are perfect and super easy to store.
And of course now with all of these upgrades,
it's even more powerful than me
as a content creator YouTuber
would probably ever need for the next,
I don't know, like the next year,
until the next one comes out.
All right, let's get this started,
and turn my bedroom into a full fledged media powerhouse.
(music continuing to play)
All right,
here she is,
little Mac Studio.
It's in here.
Oh yeah, look at you.
It's so pretty.
Like I love it so much.
Need a keyboard and a mouse.
It just,
we will never understand why.
Okay, so my setup is complete,
and it is actually 11:00 PM right now.
And I'm at my parents' house, like I said,
and I have to be kind of quiet,
because they're all sleeping.
And of course, much like when I was a child,
I'm up late on my computer.
Now, I'm posting this video tomorrow morning,
so I have to finish editing it.
But now, this whole process,
luckily I have an incredible editor, Tyler,
who helps me out immensely with my channel.
So while I was traveling here,
he was actually working on this edit already.
And we use this app called Post-Lab,
which is by far the most fantastic thing for editors,
especially for final cut,
because it allows us to work simultaneously
on projects in the Cloud.
So we finished the first half of this video
and uploaded it to Post-Lab.
So now I'm gonna go in,
I'm going to download the library,
and I have all of the assets already on my computer.
Everything that I don't have, he uploaded to Frame iO.
So, I've already downloaded all of those.
So, both of us have matching footage
on all of our computers.
So, here we go.
Here is the library.
I'm just gonna click, "Start Editing."
And what's cool, as you can see here
when he started working on it,
and here we are,
time to start editing.
So, here's all of my clips
and everything is just running super fast, super smooth.
Now, when you do this,
normally you need to relink all of your media.
And sometimes that takes a really long time,
especially working with 8K clips
and a lot of high quality footage.
But when I imported this in and relined everything,
it was so fast, so speedy,
like I blinked,
and the projects and everything were just here
and everything appeared and it,
and dare I say, it was like magic.
So, here's the project.
As you can see, it opened up super fast.
Here's our timeline.
Everything is
just smooth.
These are multi-cam clips.
Some of these are 8K B rule
and it's just,
it's cruising.
So, what's awesome is this was all the stuff
that Tyler had edited,
and I came in
and finished the edit where I was traveling home.
Now, the one thing that I really wanted to try
that I didn't get a chance to
while I was at home in Los Angeles at my studio
was gaming.
So, I have downloaded Resident Evil Village
and this will actually run natively on Apple Silicon Max.
So, I'm so excited to try this out.
So, I'm gonna sync my Xbox controller
to the studio.
This is so easy to do.
You just go into the Bluetooth settings,
press and hold this little sync button there,
and there it is.
We're synced.
So, now with this M2 Ultra,
we're gonna be getting such a huge graphics performance.
Now, I didn't run any benchmarks myself,
but reading this article,
it says the M2 Ultra is only 10% slower
than the RTX 4080,
which is NVIDIA's second fastest GPU,
right behind their 4090.
So yeah,
that's pretty impressive.
Apple's come into play.
I mean, they're not coming to play,
like they're freaking here.
Like Intel, Macs have 100% been left behind,
like the Silicon Mac chips are by far better
than anything I could have ever hoped for.
All right, let's start a new game.
We're gonna do casual.
Oh wow, this looks so good.
Okay, so right now I have this set
in just the standard settings,
but we can actually go in because this is the M2 Ultra,
and we can actually make this look even better,
because we can turn on the metal effects upscaling,
3840 by 2160;
we're going to prioritize the quality.
This is wild, 'cause you can actually go in
and see the different quality changing.
I don't know if you guys can see this,
but holy--
what the heck!
This looks so freaking crystal clear.
Like her sweater looks,
like everything looks so realistic.
I'm actually so shook.
What a huge difference that made.
Hello, child.
I wasn't listening,
and I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing.
Do I put the child to sleep?
So I did a little searching
and I found a baby carriage.
So, hopefully this is where we--
we put the child.
Okay, well, no we don't.
Sh--
Where?
Where's your crib?
Yeah, you're going in here.
Go sleep.
So now that we're rid of the child,
we can actually move around here a little bit faster.
And you can definitely tell like all of the reflections,
like everything is super, super smooth.
What kind of food you got?
What kind of meal you making?
- Oh, hands off sister.
- Don't hit me.
Cut scenes look beautiful.
Oh my goodness.
Quite a tragedy.
Oh my God, I'm scared.
It's really late and I'm playing a scary game.
Oh!
Can I, can I take any of that?
No.
That is the question.
Well it looks like it's now daytime?
Look how great this looks.
So, gaming on this was actually pretty impressive,
and I'm really excited
that I now have this awesome setup that I feel
like every time I come home to visit,
I will have a complete workstation.
So, I'll be able to bring this Mac Studio back and forth.
I definitely plan on playing this
in between my work sessions.
This is pretty great,
because now that I have this workstation here,
I feel like I'm gonna be so much more productive
when I do come home to visit.
And now that we actually have Starlink internet,
it is so much faster than before.
It's still not as fast as my Los Angeles,
two gig up, two gig down.
But considering that I could barely
browse the internet before,
Starlink is a savior.
Well, thank you guys so much for watching.
I would love to hear if there's anything else
that you would like to see me test out with the Mac studio.
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Bye. (music ending)