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1 APPLE MAC STUDIO
• From £1,999, apple.com
What’s better than the M1 Max chip? Two of them. But, somehow, only one? It’s less confusing than we’re making it: when pulling back the curtain of the Mac Studio, Apple revealed that it had built an interconnect right into the design of what was once its highest-spec processor and cleverly not told anyone about it. Thus the M1 Ultra processor at the heart of the high-end spec of the new Mac Studio, which stitches the silicon of two M1 Max chips together into one cohesive whole, effectively manages to double the performance of what was already one of the most efficient CPUs in the world with no downside.
That’s genius internal design, and makes the Mac Studio attractive to basically anyone of an artistic persuasion: time and testing will tell, but we can’t see a way that this won’t be the ultimate maker’s machine, like Macs Pro before it. Apple’s outward design language this time speaks of compactness, with clever airflow from the base to
