STUDIO MAX SIDPLAY NORMALS PRO
Paying an additional $400 or so for an option which wasn’t even available for my iMac Pro thus isn’t unexpected.
STUDIO MAX SIDPLAY NORMALS PLUS
They seem to have forgotten that Apple primarily sells premium products: Apple’s first Mac came in at $2,495, and its alternative to the Studio Display, the XDR, starts at a cost of well over $4,000 plus the cost of its stand. Many have complained at the cost of these extras, as if this was a basic monitor. I was therefore tempted to try the Studio Display with its tilt- and height-adjustable option, but thankfully had little to gain in paying extra for its nano-texture glass. One of my favourite iMac designs was the 2002 Flat Panel model, variously known as the Desk Lamp or Anglepoise from its ingeniously adjustable display. I therefore opted for the Max version with 32 GB of memory and a 2 TB SSD. I was tempted to go crazy and get a Studio Ultra, but after searching my heart for a little while, I realised that nothing I ever did would even rouse its second chiplet from idle. I ordered both the Studio and its display within an hour or so of them being announced, but both were slightly delayed as a result of China’s lockdowns. For me, the Studio and its Display have to exceed what I’ve come to expect of my iMac Pro.
Although I got an LG 4K display for my M1 Mac mini, I was rather hoping that Apple would release an M1 equivalent to the iMac Pro, and disappointed that it still hasn’t. I’ve come to love their 5K displays, which I use almost exclusively in Dark Mode. I’ve recently had a succession of iMac 27-inch models for my main production system, culminating in this iMac Pro.
So this Studio Max is my fifth Apple Silicon model since July 2020. I elected not to buy an M1 iMac, and went ahead with a MacBook Pro 16-inch with an M1 Pro chip. I was fortunate enough to start early, with Apple’s Developer Transition Kit (DTK), then to buy an early M1 Mac mini and M1 MacBook Pro 13-inch. I’m now fairly familiar with Apple Silicon Macs. If you don’t want to read any further, here’s the two-word summary: buy them. This article gives my first impressions of Apple’s Studio package.
While my iMac Pro remains in production, I’m steadily migrating to the Studio, with the intention of passing on the Intel system in the next month or two. For the last month, my second-row Mac has been a new Macintosh Studio Max with its matching Studio Display.
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