Throughout, the fan mostly required your ear to be right up to the unit to properly hear it – even though warm air was constantly being pumped out the back vent. And in gaming performance, the Mac Studio was superior to any other desktop Mac we’ve tested, for example with frame rates in Baldur’s Gate and Metro Exodus far beyond what the M2 Pro Mac Mini managed. 4K video encoding in Handbrake wasn’t a big step up from the Mac Mini M2 Pro, but was ahead of last year’s Mac Studio. Photo editing and audio projects were super smooth. In raw benchmarking, numbers were often meaningfully above the M1 Max and M2 Pro – Apple’s claims of up to 20% faster CPU performance and up to 30% faster GPU performance over the M1 Max appeared to bear out.
#Mac studio m2 max drivers#
For tasks where our daily drivers (M1 iMac and MacBook Air) are occasionally starting to lag, the Mac Studio didn’t blink. Unsurprisingly, the machine scythed through pretty much anything we threw at it. You can also opt to increase the base 32GB RAM to 64GB (96GB on the 38-core unit) and the miserly 512GB SSD all the way up to 8TB, depending on how much you want your wallet to shriek. Apple sent us a unit with a 38-core GPU, which costs an extra 200 quid. The entry-level Mac Studio has an M2 Max with a 12-core CPU and 30-core GPU. You’ll need to be really noise-sensitive (or require absolute silence in your work environment) for the fan to be a problem. But a small amount of ambient noise is enough to drown it out. The machine still isn’t silent, despite what others might claim. Although the thermal system’s fan never stops, unless the Mac Studio’s sleeping, the M2 Max’s one proved noticeably quieter than the equivalent in last year’s model. There is one change, though – at least as far as our review units go.
#Mac studio m2 max install#
And, being an Apple creation, the Mac Studio is a sealed unit – you won’t be cracking a panel off to install new components. Apple’s logo is proudly stamped on the top. (Just as well, because the Mac Studio is expensive.) On the front, there’s a slightly-too-bright power light and a couple of ports. Little has outwardly changed from last year’s model. That makes it easy to place anywhere, unlike gigantic ‘desktop’ towers.
On the desk, the Mac Studio is disarmingly compact, given the power within. The idea behind the Mac Studio appears to be squeezing the power of a pro-grade workstation into a sleek, very Apple box that looks like an extruded Mac Mini.
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