You would not say that about working on the Razer gaming laptop.
There's less “road feel” than with a laptop - you just push on it as hard as you can, blissfully unaware of how hard it’s working. In practice, working with Redshift is way more fun on the big display and cool-to-the-touch keyboard of the Mac Studio. Will Apple’s GPUs have terabytes of RAM by the time they outperform an NVIDIA card? On the other hand, it’s still outpaced by a high-end gaming laptop that unabashedly spins up loud fans and draws a power like a Marvel villain. On one hand, this is a grahics card-without-a-card with up to 128 GB of VRAM, performing at levels never before seen on a Mac. The trajectory of Apple’s integrated GPU performance is fascinating to me. So I watched the March 8th event with cautious hope, but little optimism. Not only was I unconvinced Apple would do this, I was skeptical I would prefer the result to the convenience of a pro-grade iMac. But I was concerned that the direction they went with the iMac 24″, which is thinner than the original iPhone, would challenge two of the features I love most about my iMac Pro: its quiet cooling and plethora of professional ports.įor Apple to address this, they would have to do two things they’ve been steadfastly avoiding: build a mini-Mac Pro (or a big Mac Mini?) and release a standalone display for mortal humans. I was hoping that Apple would put the power of the M1 Max in a big iMac. Upgrading all of them at once in a reliable, preconfigured package perfectly met my needs as a power user, not computer-tinkerer.
From 2009 to 2017, with each new iMac I bought, everything got better processors, drive speed, displays. Split PersonalityĪs an iMac fan I never saw any downsides to the all-in-one design. Until the very day after I wrote the above, when Apple announced the Mac Studio. My desktops of choice for many years now have been highly-specced iMacs, culminating with Apple’s one-hit-wonder iMac Pro, which I spent Mac Pro money on and considered to be the ideal computer for my needs.
My ideal laptop should be nimble, freeing my desktop to be a workstation, intractably entangled in a jumble of peripherals. I love having a separate desktop and laptop. It’s desk space and disk space, and most importantly, head space. It’s the power of side-by side displays that remind me in the morning of what I was working on the previous day, because nothing has moved and a dozen apps are still running. It’s speakers and microphones and ingesting CFAST while rapidly recalling raw files from fifteen years ago. What makes a computer powerful, for my workflow, is not just processing power.
Last week, I reported that the answer turned out to be no: It performed so well, that I, along with many Mac power-users, questioned whether it could replace my desktop Mac. In October of 2021 I got to test a 14″ MacBook Pro with M1 Max processor.
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