{"id":8681,"date":"2022-03-11T16:31:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T21:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=8681"},"modified":"2022-03-11T16:31:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T21:31:56","slug":"linked-apples-mac-studio-27-imac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2022\/03\/11\/linked-apples-mac-studio-27-imac\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: Apple&#8217;s Mac Studio &#038; 27&#8243; iMac"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:996,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/mjtsai.com\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/03\\\/10\\\/new-mac-studio-and-studio-display-change-mac-buying-calculus&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250831004654\\\/https:\\\/\\\/mjtsai.com\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/03\\\/10\\\/new-mac-studio-and-studio-display-change-mac-buying-calculus\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 18:03:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-14 00:23:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-24 00:14:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-03 09:16:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-08 07:16:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-13 03:06:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-16 19:42:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-20 21:20:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-26 01:24:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-29 08:47:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-01 14:21:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-04 14:24:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-10 10:50:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-13 17:05:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-17 16:10:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-21 18:05:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-25 14:56:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-29 13:12:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-02 17:55:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-07 12:23:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-12 07:20:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-16 19:39:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-21 07:54:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-25 10:44:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 06:15:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 05:22:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 21:07:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 04:13:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 18:30:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 05:21:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 14:10:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 12:42:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 12:42:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/10\/new-mac-studio-and-studio-display-change-mac-buying-calculus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Via Michael Tsai<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>I\u2019ve been happy with my 27-inch iMac, after many years of laptops-as-desktops before that, so I had kind of been assuming I would either get anew iMac or a desktop Mac with an external display (to go along with the non-Retina Dell that\u2019s attached to my iMac). There\u2019s no more big-screen iMac, so the Mac Studio seemed like the obvious choice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But the more I thought about the potential switch, the less sense it seemed to make. Although I don\u2019t travel a lot, there are still significant benefits to having my main Mac be potentially portable at any moment. Ican grab it and go without having to do a lengthy sync first. If the power or Internet goes down, I can easily relocate (and not have to worry about powering the desktop with a UPS while syncing).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One of the nice things about the Mac Studio is all the ports it has, but it doesn\u2019t have enough that I could avoid using a hub. M1 Ultra aside, it may have some performance benefits over a MacBook Pro due to better thermals, but I don\u2019t expect a large difference.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Please read the full post though &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/10\/new-mac-studio-and-studio-display-change-mac-buying-calculus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/10\/new-mac-studio-and-studio-display-change-mac-buying-calculus\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been a 27\u201d iMac owner since 2008. The story is well documented here but I went from iBook to 15\u201d PowerBook to iMac 27\u201d + a MacBook Air and that was my setup until 2016 when I did iMac + MacBook Pro. In 2020, I sold the MacBook Pro because I was working from home full time and my setup was iMac + iPad Pro until December when the MacBook Pro finally became fast enough that I didn\u2019t need an iMac anymore.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like Tsai, I didn\u2019t need a desktop but instead, I needed the fastest Mac I could afford and in our Intel world, that meant an iMac with lots of cooling space to house the higher watt chips that would not work in a MacBook Pro. I\u2019ve written here a few times about how all of the Core i9 MacBook Pro\u2019s from 2016 on were simply too thin to maintain base clock frequency so it was basically a waste of money to spec up one of these with the fastest chip.<\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s M1 Max has allowed me, a die hard Desktop + Laptop person to use just one computer and while my MacBook Pro has now been plugged in for 2 months which makes the portable nature of it completely moot, it is much faster than the iMac it replaces and therefore the mobile possibilities are a selling point, not a caveat. My point is, M1 Max in a 16\u201d MacBook Pro is fantastic and it being mobile is just the icing on the cake. This was not possible until Apple Silicon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mac Studio in its M1 Max configuration is to me, a machine that doesn\u2019t interest me because it\u2019s not portable. I\u2019d get nearly the exact performance but it\u2019s stuck to a desk. Doesn\u2019t seem worth it and the M1 Ultra and presumably, the massive M2 Ultra that will go into the Mac Pro this year far exceed the performance I ned for the next few years. Unlike the iMac, where I was squeezing every megahertz I could out of that machine and a bi-annual upgrade was necessary, the M1 Max on a 16\u201d MacBook Pro is as fast as I can see myself needing for a very long time\u2026oh and hey, I can take it anywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tsai goes on to mention a Mac Studio wouldn\u2019t eliminate the need for a Thunderbolt dock and I agree. I have about 14 devices hooked into my CalDigit TS3. That workhorse will be with me for a while.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Early this week, I was going to order an Apple Studio Display to replace my 4K, 32\u201d Dell (U3219Q) which I paid about $1200 for 4 years ago. The display from Apple would be VESA mounted, be 25% brighter, have a built in camera with Center stage and great audio and inputs along with powering the MacBook Pro but I was hoping for a display in the $2500 range\u2026a baby XDR that would give me 5K\/6K resolution in a 32\u201d form factor with OLED or MiniLED and 120Hz ProMotion. I don\u2019t need, nor can I afford an XDR and the 27\u201d available today for $1599 is an iMac display. If I had my way, 27\u201d Studio would be $1299, 32\u201d Studio OLED would be $2500 and XDR would be $3900. We\u2019ll have to see what WWDC brings us. Dell just replaced my display under warranty so I don\u2019t need to upgrade any time soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Via Michael Tsai: I\u2019ve been happy with my 27-inch iMac, after many years of laptops-as-desktops before that, so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-03-11T21:32:45Z","apple_news_api_id":"6fc28f30-a30a-43d8-95bd-a3e46f5facdb","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-03-11T21:32:45Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ab8KPMKMKQ9iVvaPkb1-s2w","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-2g1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6746,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/04\/04\/linked-the-mac-pro-lives\/","url_meta":{"origin":8681,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;The Mac Pro Lives&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Daring Fireball: Great piece but this part ultimately is what I wanted to reference and shed light on which is a quote from\u00a0Craig Federighi: That is a pretty incredible evolution that we\u2019ve seen over the last decade. 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