Mac Studio
From £1,999
Launched in March 2022, the new Mac Studio takes all the things we love about Apple silicon and turns them up to 11.
Looking like an oversized Mac mini, its capacious aluminium body is still remarkably compact for a desktop Mac, measuring 197x197x95mm, but it’s what’s inside that really counts.
The £1,999 entry-level model packs the same M1 Max chip as the MacBook Pro, with a 10-core CPU, 24-core GPU and 32GB of unified memory, but it’s the step-up models that are the most interesting.
That’s because you can also buy a Mac Studio with the M1 Ultra – a powerhouse piece of Apple silicon with a 20-core CPU, and up to 64 graphics cores, as well as up to 128GB of unified memory. Storage options also scale up to an impressive (and impressively expensive) 8TB.
With M1 Ultra Mac Studio prices starting at £3,999, it’s not for everyone – particularly as you’ll also need to add a display, a keyboard and a mouse or trackpad too. But even the base model gets an decent array of connectivity options, including 4x Thunderbolt 4 ports, 2x USB-C ports, 10Gb Ethernet, HDMI 2.0, Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0.