look at that there is a port this thing is upgradable let's break some mac
studios just kidding i really hope we don't break these but mkbhd said that
there is no way to take these apart to clean out the fans so challenge accepted
personally i really want to see how apple pulled off you know having so much
performance in such a small package and getting it cool and with that the base
m1 max models they actually come in at two pounds lighter which is a massive
difference because they have a different cooling solution possibly in design and
definitely in materials now first impressions guys this packaging is
amazing look at this cloth little strap here the handle and this thing is so
dang heavy man it is shocking it's pretty small but
the weight of it is just so dense with parts we have this recycled kind of
cloth material let's open this thing up
man i love how apple has this nice presentation and packaging you're
spending a lot of money but they make you feel better about it
all right look at this bad boy look at all of those ports on the back side with
this huge exhaust and then at the bottom we have the inlets and apple said that
they change the angle of the over 2 000 holes or so so the air like spins when
it comes in it is incredible and the crazy thing is we actually bought three
of these mac studios and multiple displays and other accessories spent
over 17 thousand dollars to provide the very best mac studio and studio display
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with that said let's take this thing apart now vadim and i spent a ton of
time yesterday trying to figure out the best way to open this up because there
are no visible screws fasteners anything to be able to lift it up so we
did notice online that seems like there might be some screws underneath this
rubber but also some of these ports back here go all the way through like this
power cord port it won't allow the bottom just slip out along with these
usb type-cs so i think we're gonna have
to figure that out so the first thing we're gonna do is take off this rubber
ring so for that we're gonna pull out our ifixit kit not sponsored by fix it
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love to get sponsored with you let's go ahead and grab a spudger here something
that's plastic so it won't damage it it was hard to find a point to stick it in
but i got it here right at this edge and i'm gonna just slowly try to get it to
go unglued and i just felt something like a little dip in there possibly for
a screw at least that's what we're hoping for this is definitely glued down
nicely or taped down yep all right all right all right
wow okay now what is this what is that it looks like braille hopefully it's not
like a secret magnetic key that you have to put in there but we see the screws so
let's go ahead and find the right little bit to fit guys if you guys do anything
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t3 bit all right wow apple got these really really tight dang oh and now we
see it's actually starting to come apart from its casing so it looks like it's
not impossible to take this apart now as i am
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for supporting our efforts all right we got the last screw here guys i am so
excited but we might have some more challenges because of these thunderbolt
ports it looks like they are blocking it from dropping but let's go ahead and see
all right okay
well i guess there's more to unscrew that was easier than i thought um wow so
i thought the whole shell would just come off possibly maybe at an angle but
looks like this is a nice solid piece of aluminum with these little pads
that's going to make sure there's no vibration so very cool no flex like at
all there and here we have all right this is what we were finding before
online these little blocks of aluminum well there's actually three of them oh
yep they are antennas these things right here you were right vadim it looks like
those are the antennas and the bottom of this and this outside edge is actually
looks like plastic just like on the iphones and ipads
to allow that signal to come through so very cool now we also see the tiny
little speaker right over there um and then that just fires what i guess down
through the little ports on the bottom the air intakes so it looks like the
next step is to unconnect this whole top portion which is the power supply
uh and then we're gonna have to release this solid aluminum frame to get the
actual ports to pop out before we have full access so this is built very well i
thought a lot of this would be plastic but no it's all aluminum all right we
have those undone but it's not coming off so we have another screw here
vadim look at that
look at this there is a port this thing
is upgradable okay um i don't know if i can here look
over here look from the angle i was gonna unscrew that oh my goodness is
that what i think it is what is that so obviously the ram is not upgradeable
it's on the soc that looks like you can put an ssd into it and look you could
probably do that without even taking it apart you pop it in turn it slide it in
and it's literally right from here just screw that down and you can upgrade your
sse so it's not soldered on looks like we might have another one on this side
right here look at that i'm guessing it's the same thing
so if you didn't spring for a bunch of uh ssd storage you didn't spend the
money later you should be able to plug that in just like you can with their mac
pro that is awesome all right let's get this power supply unconnected that's
probably how it gets powered to the motherboard and bam it looks like it
does lift up now we have a couple cables here all right here is one of them and
then this one here is the one that actually connects to where your cable
plugs into the wall nice and easy to remove it but be careful do not touch
any of this exposed stuff you can get shocked man this is a lot more complex
than i expected the layering we have antenna bands and cables going all
around the outside different shields and looks like even the fan assembly is
mounted to the outer case this bottom piece looks like it's just like a shield
to protect the motherboard from the power supply and it's just suspended in
the air so i think the next thing i gotta do is to unscrew this aluminum
frame to be able to access the ports and unconnect those all right wow this whole
thing just lifts up so that's literally for the bottom cover and the power
supply all aluminum no flex man this is some high quality stuff look at that
dude is that the m1 ultra chip right there
on the bottom of it look you got the heat pipes wrapping around from there
you have this thing that holds it and the screws here literally
just to lift it up so what is this on the outside then some controllers or
could that be like ram i thought the rams inside here
you know what let's just take the stickers off this is angelica's mac
studio that she's going to be editing our videos on so why not
let's pull this off alright so that looks like it's some kind of power
controller right looks like the same thing under this one and it looks like
something else under here i have no idea there's more of these ships over here so
it looks like that doesn't matter everything is underneath this uh heat
pipe and cooler which is actually nice because with apple's new apple silicon
chips your ram is cooled down as well not only the cpu and gpu chips you know
what this connector actually looks like the same ones on my mac pro so let me go
grab that ssd and we'll see if it fits alright guys so
yeah it's not gonna fit look at this thing this thing is big and a lot slower
than the built-in one to the max studio but let me see if the pins line up all
right looks like let me see they look like they maybe
line up nope they're off a little bit this section right here is shorter apple
said that the mac studio is not user accessible just like they talked about
with the macbook pro most people thought it means it's just soldered in but that
also gives us a clue that it could be upgraded it's just not by the user
you're gonna have to take it into apple just like you have to do with the imac
pro to get things like your ram upgraded so that gives us lots of hope and of
course owc could come out and make upgrade kits for just like they do for a
ton of mac stuff so that is going to be awesome but next we're going to start
unscrewing some of these ports on the sides man there are so many ribbon
cables here i really hope i don't mess something up
looks like i have to take the ssd off to access the usbc ports on the front and
this thing is literally taped on and they don't want you to remove it but we
have to sorry angelica your mac studio is getting a surgery done right now all
right wow that was easy right there what if i
just want to put it into the other slot so it's not in the way of those ports
you know i just plug the sucker in bam tighten it down it'd be cool to see if
it actually would start up and not have any issues it shouldn't
you know they designed these to be able to add ssds
very cool the usbc port holder is done and now let's remove this antenna
because we're going to need to access the screw below it all right nice and
easy that's a massive antenna
let's lay this down yeah you're not going to have a bluetooth problem no
bluetooth problems here apple made sure of that let's finish off with these
antennas and then i'm going to try to attempt to just remove these four
outside screws that hold down the fan assembly and see if we just lift it up
without having to remove all of these ports i'm really not looking forward to
putting this sucker back together before we can start benchmarking man
so long ethernet port who got this bad boy out all right let's try this again
can we clear it
nope we can't clear it so now i'm getting rid of everything every single
thing including the speaker now has to come off just to access more screws this
is insane it looks like we got a little battery underneath there just to make
sure all your stuff is saved if you power it off apple actually made a
little enclosure to make it sound better instead of just having it be free air
which is appreciated apple cares all right and we got our legacy ports out of
there and now for the culprit the one thing that held everything together that
you have to remove everything for the power jack now for the front usbc man
these are some rigid cables i've got to say no windows manufacturer would ever
do this all these little screws and cables why not just have the ports not
be as flush and just have one piece that slides in well apple cares i guess make
it a really solid system and we also now know that if at any time your little
usbc connector goes out or hdmi or anything you can fix it yourself it's
not that difficult all right guys my worst nightmare has come true
the last ports that i was trying to keep in here without all these screws they're
all individuals have to come out you literally have to disassemble everything
to get this out alright guys the second moment of truth man if you guys
appreciate all of this and effort having to put this back together afterwards
please buy a shirt all right guys looks like he has to go
front forward first which makes sense
oh man this is where all the weight is oh
yeah nice so it looks like the logo is not
used for antennas like they've done in the past all of those are at the bottom
of the system so probably don't put it on a metal desk or anything like that
and here we have the computer
we got those dual fans we have this section right here that
actually curves and seals towards the back of the case in apple's renderings
they showed it having a gap which i thought was weird
but it actually is longer super tight fitting in there the fins here are super
super close together there's not a lot of room there and it's crazy how front
heavy this is the back side barely wears anything where we have these dual fans
the front is most of the weight it's all copper yeah it's coated though
and it's also crazy how small this motherboard is super thin this is the
whole computer here and the chip is massive compared to other chips the cpu
and graphics we also just have only two heat pipes coming up here to the cooler
as you guys could see and they just connect right here they
don't spread out it's right here in the center which is also interesting but i
guess we'll see how the thermals go when we actually plug it in and test it out
all right guys we have to keep going let's get this cooler off because i want
to see if we have dual cooling from this side of the heat pipes and from the
other side we know apple is working on a chip that has four chips connected
probably the m2 ultra or m2 ultra duo or too extreme we don't know but let's see
if we have dual cooling so we're going to start out by unscrewing
where our little heat pipes get connected bam right there we know we
have thermal paste there interesting that's not soldered on all right let's
flip it over now and get these fans unscrewed and let's pop this thing off
wow okay that was easy look at that in here that is a lot of space for air and
look at that look at all these screws holding one
antenna cable all the way
just so i can plug in on the other side for this i'm so glad i didn't try to get
that removed i'm gonna leave that there we have all these fins i saw those
screws i thought it might be holding it to the motherboard but no so it's only
these top screws here probably these four so it looks like it's still not
coming off and this thing that holds down the m1
ultra chip it also goes all the way through the
motherboard and it's connected to the cooler on the other side which makes
sense but dang i would not recommend doing
this and there is no way that i'm going to
take apart another one i am just dreading putting this back together all
right we got these off i can't believe we took so much of this apart
what's crazy is that it looks like this top plate
it is literally screwed into the chip or into the motherboard
because that is held together oh wow
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there you right the m oh
no this is crazy the m1 ultra is literally cooled
to this whole thing is this what is this heat pipes it
literally goes to this whole block and this backside is literally cooling just
the back part of it to get it even cooler i thought it was weird having
those two heat pipes and that is the only way that it's transferring stuff
literally dual sided cooling
and look at that beauty right there it is actually hidden well protected
yes i do see it i do see the apple logo and we have
this whole thing look at this little thermal material this whole casing
with that plate that goes straight to the coolers that is incredible that's
insane that's copper what's copper oh that bottom plate right
yeah i guess that is all copper yeah it is for sure copper this is all copper
man look at that beauty look at that guys or just like the shirt that you
should buy with promo code m1 ultra for 20 off you have this beautiful thing
with the apple logo man that is incredible and we have
mission successful and look this m1 ultra is literally i don't know half of
the whole motherboard size it is huge and it is thick
and it is incredible it's actually really interesting how it just has
contact where the m1 ultra chip is nowhere around so it really doesn't have
to cool down the memory it actually just passively goes through but that little
shape right there shows exactly the size of the m1 ultra so even though with
apple's animations with the m1 the m1 pro max and ultra looks huge that
literally is the size it is still nice and small and it's nice that there's a
little extra space there for the thermal compound once it squeezes out so there's
no issues with that said let's go ahead and clean it off and see that apple logo
so there you guys go we have that apple logo on there now you know just how big
the m1 ultra is both the package and just the chipset we have this beautiful
look and just how crazy apple went absolutely i don't know
insane building the system i do not envy the people that are putting these
together day to day and just to show you guys the difference here is a ryzen
processor the whole package compared to apple's m1 ultra package that is crazy
but at the same time you see a size difference apples has the ram in there
the controllers in there everything is in there
up to 128 gigs of ram compared to just a cpu so they have an incredible
incredible design guys thank you for watching if you guys appreciate it
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comparisons and also which upgrades are worth it do you need the extra ram do
you need the 64 core ultra or should you just get the 48 core like this one is
right here or is the m1 max good enough what are the thermal differences all
that stuff that we are going to check out as well as the display compared to
lg's compared to the pro display a lot of detailed videos please wish me luck
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