Apple Mac Studio 2023 review - The M2 Max also impresses in a desktop device

[Redaktion]

Apple has updated its desktop computer, the Mac Studio, which is now fitted with the faster M2 Max or M2 Ultra SoCs. We have tested the base model with the M2 Max and the 30-core GPU as well as 32 GB RAM.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-Mac-Studio-2023-review-The-M2-Max-also-impresses-in-a-desktop-device.752807.0.html

[Neenyah]

Can't run games and even those that run on it are worse in performance than a 3050 Ti laptop - gets 99% for "Games Performance". Yep, makes perfect sense 👍

[Moses]

Its not suppose to make sense, although its 74% weaker than class average its 99% perf you racist. Who do you think you are, demanding better gpu performance from $1999 computer are you insane? /s

[Neenyah]

Yep Moses, those are pretty accurate numbers. And I went to play a bit and put a PC together. Here it is: https://imgur.com/3kYfRsg
 
So...

• ✅ The Ryzen 9 7950X3D is absolutely wiping the floor with that M2 Max ( https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5234vs5183/AMD-Ryzen-9-7950X3D-vs-Apple-M2-Max-12-Core-3680-MHz )
• ✅ The 4060 Ti despite being a horrible value is completely demolishing Apple's M2 Max 30C GPU ( https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-RTX-4060-Ti-8G-vs-M2-Max-30-Core-GPU_11592_11572.247598.0.html ) - linked is an 8 GB version, in the custom build is a 16 GB which is about 20% faster
• ✅ You get 3+ year warranty on every part instead of a joke 1-year that you get from Apple
• ✅ You also get 4x larger SSD than the one in this reviewed unit
• ✅ You can replace/upgrade any part you want whenever you want
• ✅ You are not limited to the memeOS, err, I meant macOS; instead you can use any OS you want to do the work and game
• ✅ You pay A LOT less money for more than 400%+ overall performance, lmao.

 
What is there on Apple's side? Only "efficiency" which is marketing speak for "We are weak but don't want to admit it.", yeah.
 
Is this Apple Meme Studio more efficient over the same time period as a custom built PC? Of course it is... But your custom built PC won't be as slow as this one so eventually you also spend less energy because you finish the same work much faster 😆 All of that for less money than this "workstation" gets to be. Apple at their finest 😀
 
Edit: I forgot to mention - you also get full 32 GB RAM in that custom built above PLUS 16 GB VRAM. No need to share 32 GB like you do in that Mac Studio with its already a 🐶💩 GPU and get even less free RAM to do the work (but more disk swapping to decrease its longevity). All for more than $600 less! You can get a pretty damn good monitor with that money and if you equal the price of that reviewed Apple device it won't even be funny how out of its league Apple is. But yeah "efficiency" 😍😍😍 That's the next "courage" (3.5 mm jack removal) in Appleland.

[Moses]

You dont understand silly, you're not paying for performance for anything aside from photo & video editing. Sure the gpu is 3 gens behind, sure you cant upgrade cpu, ram, gpu. Sure its 3x more expensive than equivalent pc... but you forgot to mention, the mac studio is 4-6liters in volume. Thats very smol! you can carry the studio with you everywhere...its like a laptop! it fits in your backpack! Also its very quiet like 24dbs. Therefore it makes sense that $1999 gets you 512gb & 32gb ram.

You can tell im being sarcastic right?

[RobertJasiek]

Suppose silence and compactness are worth $1000 of $2000. This never justifies any SSD or RAM-equivalent upselling! Not by Apple, not by Microsoft, not by any manufacturer. If only upselling enables purchase of reasonable storage configurations, do not buy at all!