it's nearing two months since apple released the max studio and we wanted to
give you an updated list of the top issues that plague this machine for
those of you guys that have bought one to watch out for and those that want to
get one to make sure you know what you are getting and we have gotten some new
issues as people have used them and as we have tested them now i'm also going
to cover the studio display that we absolutely love just like the mac studio
that one is great but we wish some
things were different now let's go ahead and jump right into it now the first one
is the coil whine or high pitch noise issue now personally we have gotten
lucky with this but a lot of people have been talking about it talking about our
comments on forums with this is where you have this high-pitched quiet but
annoying sound that's in the background now this was very prevalent in a lot of
dell xps laptops some graphics cards but this in fact is not coil wine in the mac
studio it is actually the fans there are dual fans with both of the mac studios
the m1 max and m1 ultra and they run all the time even though the systems are
extremely cool running they're running about 300 rpms now it seems like some of
these are having a high pitch sound or whine now some people have actually
gotten around this by using some fan control software like tg fan pro which
i'll link down in the video description to lower the rpm down to about 1100 and
that makes it a lot better or ramp it up slightly if you want to now these
machines should be completely silent 99 of the time they are amazing now in
reality what you could do is you could get it swapped out for another
machine but i'll talk about that in just a bit now the second issue is the system
not booting up or crashing now we actually had this happen to ourselves
probably about two three days after we got the base model it would not boot and
we would just get a sos flashing light now it was working just fine it was
connected and all of a sudden it crashed and wouldn't turn on now some people are
actually getting this when they just open it up out of the box and they're
trying to set it up and it won't turn on it's a software issue i think it's with
the older version as a mac os so you can't actually fix this if you have a
mac running the latest software using apple's configurator tool that will
revive your mac so it's not too terribly hard to do you can just follow all the
steps but it does take some time and it is annoying now the next thing is just
the fact that these aren't available because i tell most of you guys don't
deal with the fan issue don't have to fix it if that comes up just go get it
swapped out but in many cases these are sold out until july or even up to three
months if you go in and do a custom order that just shows how popular these
are and of course there's chip shortages and things like that so if i had these
issues i would try to work with it for now and then if you have a fan issue
well just wait and then when they come in stock then reach out to apple and say
hey we're having this issue can you guys please fix it or get me a new one and i
know they've done that in the past with previous macs now the next issue are the
quad encoders in the m1 ultra now we wanted to wait a bit before we talk
about this for us to get software updates and then we did we got the
latest version of final cut the apple finally released took him forever
davinci resolved they released version 18 premiere was updated and this is
still an issue now we personally got the ultra as our main video editing machine
because we want super fast export times but unfortunately when you look at these
charts the export times are the same if you're looking at final cut in davinci
resolve and also premiere pro there's a slight slight difference but it should
be twice as fast or at least close now we have some insider information that
basically told us yes technically apple is right what they
announced on stage they do have quad encoders but those quad encoders can't
really do anything because the limitations are the codex and the way
the software works and the way that mac os is written future versions of mac os
will get better and we'll have some improvements but that's going to be at
least half a year away and then even still it won't be twice as fast it'll be
some small improvements so they were right they're quantum coders but if
you're buying this higher end model like we did just to export videos faster well
you guys see a lot of times the speeds are identical even if you spend twice as
much or more now the next one ties into this and that's software optimization
we've been talking about this ever since the m1 chips came out a year and a half
ago and some things were working pretty well but we now know that this is a much
bigger deeper issue apple released their latest version of final cut and almost
nothing changed and in fact final cut is being beaten out by davinci resolve
which is crazy now that we have these high performing chips those software
optimizations or lack thereof they're a lot more noticeable and if apple is
struggling with it well that says a lot and with this the m1 ultra itself
is showing us a lot of issues on the graphics side on the cpu side it's a lot
easier we're getting some nice gains in lightroom in logic that's the same thing
where the m1 performed really well and stuff got optimized quick for cpu but
with these higher cores with these ultra chips we're seeing that in many cases
the 64 core isn't much faster than the 48 and with that the 48 is not twice as
fast as the 24 like it should be we've had numerous software engineers tell us
that optimizing for arm from intel x86 is a piece of cake compared to doing the
necessary optimizations to get the m1 ultra to work at its proper capacity now
davinci resolve has done a killer job they were actually the first ones even
beating apple to have support for pro res raw decoding with the afterburner
you see their encoding speeds for regular video they're much faster than
final cut latest version and even they are not fully optimized yet and the way
we know this is because the graphics is actually underclocking itself because
we're not getting data the proper weight and there's a big bottleneck and
basically we just have a funnel where it's going through this little you know
small bottleneck of bandwidth and then the graphics card is slowing down using
not a lot of wattage which we've shown you guys now the latest version of
davinci resolve the 64 core model will actually run at about 1100 megahertz
instead of the proper 1300 but final cut on the other hand still runs at about
752 showing that even apple can't optimize
for these high-end gpus and we've seen with xcode's tool that's for like
blender for example half the time it's sitting there and the graphics card is
not doing work even though it shows us that it's a 100
usage so there's so much extra processing and things that need to get
done to fix this and it's going to take a lot of time
in apple for their later chips their newer updated ones they're actually
changing the way they're making this so that you don't have to be as optimized
so you can get better performance on the hardware level just because of how
difficult it is to make these changes and optimize for apple's high-end
graphics chips it is because of this that we are actually going to stick to
the m1 max even though it's not perfectly optimized yet the balance is
really good and because the quad encoders can't be used it's not a big
deal for us and the machine is incredibly fast check out our full
review if you guys want to get more info now let's go ahead and shift to the
studio display this thing is expensive but the quality is top-notch the
speakers are amazing the mic is amazing but i have a couple issues with it not
including the price tag the first thing is the webcam apple said
that there was a software bug that was making the webcam look absolutely
terrible but they just released an update we tested it out and yes it is
better in some ways but not in always now the framing they actually put effort
into making it work properly instead of having way too much headroom but there's
now way too much contrast and the actual detail went down because they're adding
extra contrast and a lot of extra de-noising now what really blew my mind
is when i compared it to my iphone 13 pro using the standard camera using the
camo app which also linked below the quality difference is absolutely insane
now i know what you guys are gonna think hey this is an iphone camera you know
it's way more expensive than apple's ultra wide center stage that digitally
crops in which is why it looks so bad well apple now they're selling the
camera module for 111 dollars and then giving you a chunk of money back when
you send back the original and that rate is actually flat rate even for like an
iphone se they'll charge you that and then give you a lot of the money back
when you send it so there's definitely enough room we only need one good camera
it's running the same software so it could use it why would apple just not
put in a normal camera that looks great instead of having that cropping ability
which how many people need that in a desktop display
and having this quality issue so it definitely is a bummer and it definitely
is not only software and if you don't believe me that it is the hardware check
out this comparison with the imac pro from 2017
look at that quality difference the software fixed studio display from 2022
and that imac pro from 2017 it is just crazy now that leads me into my last one
and this is something that i would absolutely love i know apple won't do it
but to allow this expensive display to have more capabilities i would have
loved to be able to even run a web browser or ios apps on it because it
actually has a full iphone 11 not even the iphone sc because at 64 gigs of
storage and four gigs of ram built-in running the latest ios
but it's not doing anything with it and previously you can buy an imac for 1800
bucks often 1600 on sale that's a full computer built in with a 5k display so
if apple would have allowed you to run at least ios apps or ipad apps on it
without a display plugged in that would make it such a better value proposition
and make it such an awesome tool for people that want to have a display set
up like an imac at your desk so you can do basic web browsing tasks which people
spend most of their time on and then plug in a laptop or whatever else for
heavy tasks that have been amazing just like the samsung m8 that we recently
showed off so the hardware is built in the software's there but apple's not
doing anything with it including having a pretty terrible webcam also which is
crazy so that would have just been amazing but of course they don't want to
do that because i'd be too good of a value so there you guys go we really
like the studio display the quality the mac studio also is amazing especially
the base model for the value that you get i would say
still pick one up if you enjoy it um if
you're if it's gonna do a good job for you consider buying a macbook instead
maybe if you're buying a base model i have a full video on that over there
with a lot of reasons why that might be a better value click above to subscribe
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