hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and this is the mac studio this took quite a while to get in
as it's a custom order with basically the top configuration and so i thought we'd just do a
quick unboxing compare it to the mac mini that i actually have here in the box from the m1 mac mini
just to show you the size difference and then we'll talk about maybe doing a more in-depth
review later on if you want to see that but let's go ahead and open it up this is how it comes
from apple in the mail and there we go and this box opens up like this and then the mac studio is
right here so let me go ahead and pick this up and move it around this is pretty heavy too so we'll
move this over here now as you can see right here it says it's max studio 20 core cpu 64 core gpu
128 gigabytes of ram and 8 terabytes of storage so this is the fully specced out version starts
at four thousand dollars goes to eight thousand dollars so let's go ahead and open it up so to
open it up we have this little pull tab here so we'll just pull this here off the top of the box
and there we go and we set it down and this has this nice sort of cloth handle like we have on the
mac pro and also the studio display and just to show you a box size comparison difference there's
quite a big difference between the mac mini and the mac studio so this gives you an idea and
it's probably a third the thickness as far as the box goes so there we go inside as we open it up
you can see here before i open the rest of this up we've got some paperwork here so it says
let's pull this out like that and see what we've got so it says designed by apple in california
and then inside we have mac studio
and it just goes over what we have on it we'll go around that in a moment we have a little warranty
card and a giant apple sticker so it's the black apple sticker like you would expect let's go ahead
put those away and take a closer look at the mac studio itself now you may have seen this already
online elsewhere but as you can see here's how the box works so we basically push out on this
and now we can lift the mac studio out so there we go and wow is that heavy so it's a pretty heavy
device so that's the max studio and then inside we have our power cable so this is the power cable
you'll see it's braided this looks very familiar it's basically the same sort of braided cable that
we get with the mac pro but you've got a smaller connector so you have a three prong connector
that goes in the back of the mac studio so we'll set this aside for now
and let's take a closer look at the mac studio itself so here's the mac studio let's see if we
can take the wrapper off it so we just pull here it looks like and that broke off but that's okay
there we go so you pull up and it sort of all falls away so there's the bottom piece
so that's the mac studio itself and that just feels like a giant solid piece of aluminum and as
far as its weight goes if you have the m1 max it's a little bit lighter if you have the m1 ultra like
this one because the heatsink is copper it's 7.9 pounds or 3.6 kilograms if it was the m1 max it's
5.9 pounds or 2.7 kilograms so 2 pounds heavier than the max version this is about 8 pounds pretty
heavy device so let's go around the outside edge so you can see on the top of course you have the
apple logo there's nothing there as far as a lit apple logo it's not backlit or anything like that
now because this is the ultra version the front ports are thunderbolt so you've got
two thunderbolt 4 ports and then you also have an sd card slot so this is always nice we take our sd
card it just sits in there like that so it doesn't click in there's no mechanism to break just slots
in just like it does on the macbook we also have a little status light here on the front nothing on
the right side nothing on the left side and then on the bottom of course it says mac studio so you
can see mac studio there and then you've got some vents all around it so you've got some nice vents
all the way around and then of course a kensington lock in the upper left on the back so that's to
secure it to a table now on the back we have four thunderbolt 4 ports we have a 10 gig ethernet port
we also have our power port in the middle and then we have two usb a hdmi this is not the
latest hdmi for some reason but it's hdmi a high impedance headphone jack and then our power button
and then of course the top here this is all venting so this is all cooling if you've seen this
online yet or from apple they showed this you've got two fans that help vent all of the hot air out
of this and keep it cool so not only do we have a 10 gig ethernet jack we also have wi-fi built in
802.11 abgn ac and then also ax wi-fi 6 compatibility we also have bluetooth 5.0 so all
of that's built in you pretty much have everything you need here whether you're tethering that to
ethernet or maybe to a bunch of other macs as well you can do that with this now i wanted to show you
a quick size comparison with the m1 mac mini so as far as its square dimensions and the rounded
corners it's basically the exact same size so where it's different is its depth so from top down
it looks the same the apple logo on the studio is a little bit bigger but that's it so that looks to
be a little bit bigger not much of a difference there of course if we rotate this to the back so
you can see all the ports and differences if we turn it around here you can see the difference so
it's about three mac minis deep so this is a big big piece of aluminum and it's a studio but it's
much bigger than i would have thought and as far as its overall design i'm not sure i like it it's
basically something that you're going to set to the side it's not a mac pro that you sort of
want to showcase but it's definitely a functional device so i'll have to use it for a while though
to determine what i think about it but again from the side let me just rotate this here and
this is quite heavy it's much heavier than i would have thought so that gives you an idea what they
look like again as i rotate them around from the bottom there's the mac mini there's the mac studio
and so that's the differences as far as the way they look the mac mini is definitely a lot lighter
though now i didn't want to do a bunch of setups and tests and everything else as you've probably
seen that elsewhere online and i've set up other macs and different videos as well but if there's
something specific you'd like to know about it i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
initial benchmarks show this is incredibly fast but that doesn't really explain what it's
like to use day-to-day a number from maybe geekbench or something else doesn't really
show a whole lot when it comes to maybe trying a game or maybe you're rendering something
or maybe you're running some scientific project and you need it to maybe complete
over a period of time all sorts of different applications can be used with this and
if there's something you haven't seen elsewhere i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
of course you can see the initial geekbench scores are incredibly high on the m1 ultra
this is basically the fastest mac that apple sells right now much faster than the mac pro
that i've used and it should stay nice and cool as well but again if there's something specific
you'd like to see i'd love to hear from you in the comments below so i didn't want to do a full setup
just want to do a quick unboxing as many wanted to see it so let me know in the comments below
if you'd like to see anything else or if this was just enough i'd love to hear from you there
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as always thanks for watching this is Aaron i'll see you next time