Adam Kos The Mac Studio desktop computer is still a new product in Apple's portfolio. He presented it only last spring and has not yet received any update, and it probably won't come any time soon. The Mac Pro is to blame, of course.
Looking at Apple's current desktop portfolio, it might make sense at first glance. There is a Mac mini, an entry-level device, an iMac, which is an all-in-one solution, a Mac Studio, a professional workstation, and the only representative of the Mac world with Intel processors – the Mac Pro. The vast majority of users reach for the Mac mini and its new configurations, while the 24" iMac could still appeal to some. With its starting price of CZK 56 without peripherals, Mac Studio is an expensive joke after all. The Mac Pro is probably just surviving in the lineup until it gets its full-fledged successor.
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Mac Studio is sold with the M1 Max and M1 Ultra chips, while here we already have the M2 Max available in the new MacBooks Pro (the M2 Pro is in the new Mac mini). That is why it would be easy if the updated Mac Studio received both the M2 Max and the M2 Ultra. In the end, however, this should not happen, and the question is what will happen next with this series of desktops. Namely Mark Gurman from Bloomberg states, that Mac Studio is definitely not expecting an update anytime soon. It is more likely that instead of updating it, the Mac Pro would finally lose the new chips.
This is simply because the specifications of the Mac Pro would actually be very similar to the Mac Studio, and it would logically not make sense for Apple to have both machines in its portfolio, i.e. the M2 Ultra Mac Studio and the M2 Ultra Mac Pro. According to the latest information, the latter should finally be launched on the market this year. It was originally speculated that it should bring an M2 Extreme chip consisting of two M2 Ultra chips, which would give it a clear advantage over the Studio, but in the end it was dropped due to high production costs.
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What will be the fate of Mac Studio?
So even if Apple released a 2023 Mac Pro, it wouldn't necessarily mean the end of Studio, just that Apple wouldn't update it in the years when it releases a new Mac Pro. Therefore, it can easily wait until the generation of M3 or M4 chips for the company to differentiate the two lines sufficiently. However, the new Mac Pro should be based on the design of the existing model, not the Studio. The question remains, however, what will it provide users to expand (no RAM, but theoretically an SSD disk or graphics).
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We mention iMac Pro in the title, and not for nothing. When the iMac Pro arrived, we had the classic iMac, which extended this professional computer with the appropriate performance. Now we have a Mac mini here, and Studio can actually act to extend its capabilities as well. So it is not excluded that the Mac Studio will die just like the iMac Pro before. After all, Apple abandoned this line a long time ago and has no intention of returning to it. In addition, we are more than impatiently looking forward to a larger iMac, similar to the update of the 24" version with new chips, but we still don't have one and can't wait.
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So for how simple Apple's desktop portfolio is, it perhaps overlaps too much unnecessarily, or on the contrary suffers from rather illogical holes. However, it cannot be said that the Mac Pro should somehow fix this.
