Hook up a Thunderbolt hub and there’s even more connectivity.Īnd did I mention it’s quiet? I have not heard any fan ramp-up for extra cooling in several months of using the Mac Studio.

It’s right there on my desktop and I don’t have to crawl under a desk to plug in a drive. Then I’ll often look down and see their gigantic PC sitting 3 feet tall and two feet wide and realize what a nice, compact design the Mac Studio is. But most of them don’t have Thunderbolt, much less 6 Thunderbolt ports on six different buses, as well as USB-A, HDMI and audio out as other connectivity options. But they are still using Windows and despite the NLE similarity for Premiere, Avid Media Composer and Resolve, I wish them well to continue using Windows. That may be the case, and we have yet to have a situation where we can have the Mac Studio square off with a PC (but from what I’ve noticed, it doesn’t feel that way). And PVC writers have talked about the same thing. I’ve had a few arguments disagreements with some of my PC-using editor friends, who proclaim that their custom-built PCs with NVIDIA GPUs will blow the Mac Studio away. Yes, the Mac Studio is a fantastic Mac for pro-Mac users and that’s probably not news to Mac fans. I’ll break this review down into a few headings and then pontificate on each of these headings. In fact, I’ve had the Mac Studio for much longer than I anticipated as I asked to extend the loan time for a particular job this fall (which we’ll talk about later), so this is a bit of a long-term update in addition to part 2 of the review. This part of the review will be more anecdotal. While those kinds of tests are very important to video editors everywhere, we’ve been there and done that. That is what part 1 of my Mac Studio review was all about, and you can find those other places as well. It was mainly more render time calculations and export tests with a stopwatch.

When I started writing part two of my Mac Studio review, I got a thousand words or so into it and then sat back and looked at what I had put together.

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