After the promised AIR announcements-including the MacBook Air M4-Apple does a Mac Studio 2025. The manufacturer is now upgrading the workstation not updated last year with new Max and Ultra chips, but in an unusual generation mix: The basic model of the Mac Studio is now available with the M4 Max (14-core CPU, 32-kernel GPU), which has been configured into MacBook ProS since last autumn. The model with 512 GB SSD costs 2500 euros – with 36 GB instead of 32 GB of RAM. It is also 100 euros more expensive than its predecessor.
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Thunderbolt 5 for the Mac Studio
There are now four USB-C connections with Thunderbolt 5 on the back and two USB-A ports and 10 GBit Ethernet unchanged. On the front it remains with two USB-C sockets that have to make do without Thunderbolt in the basic model. With WLAN support, nothing changes with 6e, support for WLAN 7 remains out of the way.
The Mac Studio, which is twice as expensive at 5,000 euros, equips Apple with the – also new – M3 Ultra. Here, too, it goes up in terms of price, the predecessor with M2 Ultra started at 4,800 euros, but 94 instead of 64 GB is now on board as a minimum.
New M3 Ultra, older generation
The M3 Ultra is two M3-Max chips that are connected via a technology mentioned by Apple “Ultra Fusion”. According to Apple, the M3 Ultra is up to 1.5 times faster than the M2 Ultra. The entry-level version relies on a 28-core CPU with a 60-core GPU, optionally there is a 32-core CPU together with 80-core GPU. The RAM can be upgraded to up to 512 GB-a novelty at Apple's M chips, so far it was over at 192 GB.
In full equipment with 16 TB stores, the new Mac Studio costs a good 17,600 euros. Apple left open why there is no M4 Ultra – after all, there is still a possible update for the Mac Pro, which was not updated on Wednesday and has previously played at the performance level of the Mac Studio.
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