**Unboxing the Apple M1 Ultra Max Studio**

I think that is a pretty decent option I would definitely stick with 32 gigabytes of unified memory because unless you're doing something really crazy, 64 is a little unnecessary and then I would probably add a terabyte so for a $2,400 i think you'd be getting a really really solid package here. And that brings us on to the M1 Ultra configuration because well there's no other way of putting this it's twice the price but perhaps that makes sense because it is literally twice everything that we just mentioned 20 CPU cores instead of 10, 48 GPU cores instead of 24, 32 core neural engine instead of 16, 64 gigabytes of RAM instead of 32, a terabyte instead of half a terabyte. It's twice of everything but guess what folks there is a secret way that you can get an M1 Ultra Max Studio for a little bit less if you go into the base model M1 Max one and you upgrade that to the M1 Ultra but leave it at 64 gigabytes and take it down to 512, you can save $200 so technically you can get the M1 Ultra in a Mac Studio for $3,799.99 and then just make sure that you have a lot of external storage so there you go, that's a little pro tip for you but for most normal people that are willing to spend four thousand dollars on a Mac you're gonna want more than half a terabyte of storage that's almost a ridiculous thing to have to say but if we go through this upgrade tree, you'll notice that 48 core GPU costs $1,000 to upgrade to the 64. That is a really steep price but that's the one that I ordered, I said "you know what we got to find out the most powerful Mac how powerful it actually is" so I went ahead and upgraded that.

**Upgrade Options for the M1 Ultra**

As for the RAM, I'll be honest I have not yet been able to fully saturate 64 gigabytes of unified memory and I think very few people will, 99.9 of people should leave it at 64. Now as for the storage this is again subjective if you do 8 terabytes you're looking at a pretty hefty price tag but if you scale it back to a more realistic four or even two you're looking at the low to high five thousand dollar range for this thing with pretty decent specs.

**The Final Price Tag**

Now I guess we should also mention that when we're talking about this package it's not actually a complete package because I spent $5,000 on my Mac Studio and I did not get a keyboard, I did not get a mouse, I did not get a display so what would it actually cost to do this whole thing well with my particular configuration of $5,000 i added the new studio display, I have to you know, standard glass of course I'm not gonna pay for the nano texture although it is a less expensive upgrade here it's $300 instead of like $500 which it has been in the past uh for the standard price of $15.99 you get basically the same stand as the 24 inch iMac which I leaked by the way that was spot on but you can also add essentially the pro stand for $400 so at least it's not a thousand but I also said no thanks don't need that so my total came to $65.98 but then you got to add the Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and numeric keypad that's $200, and then you add the Magic Mouse that's $100, you can also now get AppleCare Plus on a yearly subscription this is something that I don't think has been around before so with everything added up here including the keyboard and mouse to fill out that Apple aesthetic we're looking at $7,309.99 and at that point I mean we can talk about package all we want but this is darn expensive even if you go for the base model two thousand dollar Mac Studio it's still four thousand dollars by the time you've added a display and the Magic Mouse and keyboard so it this is not an inexpensive product make no mistake I think the real meta is going to be I think the meta here is going to be using your own accessories and not paying Apple's extremely high prices for the display, keyboard, and mouse but we'll have to see I hope the display can prove that it's worth $1,600 you can get a lot of monitor for that kind of money um but we're gonna have to wait and find out.

**Conclusion**

I'm really excited to get my hands on all this stuff it's coming next Friday on March 18th so you're definitely going to want to be subscribed and turn on notifications because I spent $10,000 for you guys so you better watch the videos please, please watch the videos.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enokay all right you got me peak performance yet they delivered on that i think i think it's safe to say that we have just experienced an absolute banger of an apple event and guess what i uh i don't want to brag but i think i was pretty darn close with the leaks that i talked about yesterday so today what we're going to focus on is the new m1 ultra chip we're going to be diving into the performance charts that apple brought up discussing the value and the performance of this thing and of course we're going to be talking about the way that it's implemented in the max studio that i leaked just yesterday so you guys i spent ten thousand dollars today please please get subscribed turn on notifications and like this video a ton of coverage is going to be coming your way and you're not going to want to miss it and without any further ado let's get into it okay so where do i start this video other than a little tiny bit of a victory lap i'm sorry i had a big leak video yesterday and there were a lot of doubters everyone was saying alleged or oh this guy's a clown or people were saying they're gonna eat their shoes if apple shipped a mac studio that looked like what i showed you yesterday well i mean if you want i can ship you some utensils here's the shade of green for the iphone that i predicted and here's the real one here's the purple ipad that i predicted and here's the real one here's the studio display that i predicted and here's the real one there were only two little details that needed to be changed a little bit on the mac studio so the first one was the top piece my information said that it was glass or polycarbonate that was not the same but we did get the black apple logo correct and then the vent design on the bottom is slightly different but apart from that i got the dimensions right i said it was about four inches tall this was a pretty successful leak so yeah there's my victory lap now let's start talking about this m1 ultra chip this is a new chip that to be honest a number of us saw coming but i don't know that we actually thought it was going to happen today and that you'd be able to order it and get it this month but that's where we are m1 ultra is essentially two m1 max chips glued together and my goodness does that give us quite a bit of power we're talking about 20 cpu cores 16 of which are high performance cores we're talking about up to 64 gpu cores 128 gigabytes of unified memory and 8 terabytes of storage that is absolutely insane it is an absolute monster i mean look at it next to the other chips the thing is massive now as usual apple gave us some rather dubious performance charts so i think now would be a good time to go through them so when apple was talking about the m1 ultra they also compared the m1 max and i think that gives us a little bit of insight for example the first chart that came up was this gpu performance versus power where they claimed that the m1 max is as powerful as a 10 core pc desktop with 65 percent less power now you might be wondering why are they talking about the m1 max performance again we've already had this chip well before it was in a laptop so they were comparing it to laptops now it's in a desktop so it has to compete with desktop processors in this case a core i5 12600 k now that is a little bit interesting because the numbers for both of those processors already exist and they simply don't tell the same tail if you look at cidabench r23 the core i5 12600k scores 40 higher than the m1 max so i don't know what benchmark apple is using here but we're going to take this with a grain of salt and we're going to apply that difference when we talk about the m1 ultra because they basically said that it's more powerful than a core i9 12900k and that it has the same performance as that chip with 100 watts less power interesting interesting now this claim would imply that apple's scaling is simply phenomenal now when you're combining two chips together there's not necessarily a guarantee that you're going to be able to do that perfectly as apple talked about in the keynote in the old way which they used to do on the cheese grater mac pro where they would have two cpus when those things were linked together you lost a lot of performance with that bridge so they have this new unspecified technology that allows them to fuse together with supposedly i guess next to zero compromise so does that claim actually add up well they say that they have a chip that looks to be 20 or 30 percent more powerful than a core i9 12 900 k but as we know from geekbench scores with the m1 max that's a little bit doubtful now we don't know whether the m1 max is going gonna be more powerful in the mac studio than it is in the macbook pro but i'd like to be pleasantly surprised so let's assume that it isn't and let's go ahead and subtract 40 off the m1 ultra when comparing it to the 12900k so if apple says it's about 30 percent more powerful we're gonna say it's about 10 less powerful and if we go ahead and look at the cinebench r23 scores we see that the 12900k gets about 27 thousand 472 in the multi-core test but then let's take 10 off of that as a penalty for apple using these stupid silly little graphs and exaggerating their numbers so we can call that roughly 24 724 and folks that is within like 100 points of double the score of an m1 max like that's just you can't make this stuff up now i would put a caveat here and say that maybe apple is pumping more power into these things and that's why their numbers seem to be a little higher than you would expect but that does not appear to be the case because in all of these charts they show the power consumption being pretty much the same as what they showed when they displayed the macbook pros apple is claiming that the m1 max which as we can see here is using under 60 watts of power can compete with an rtx 3060 ti but the m1 max in the macbook pro doesn't compete with even a laptop 3060 ti so i'm not sure how they're suddenly making this more powerful and so that makes the big reveal the graphics comparison of the m1 ultra slightly doubtful because in this chart they're saying that the m1 ultra at 100 watts of power can compete with an rtx 3090 i mean realistically they're saying it's slightly better but i simply do not think that that is the case there is absolutely no way that by doubling the gpu cores they have taken the m1 max from a 30 60 laptop all the way to an rtx 3090 desktop with this new chip but is it a good value so to figure that out we have to talk about the mac studio apple revealed in their keynote that the mac studio starts at 2 000 and for that you get the binned version of the m1 max with a 24 core gpu that honestly was a little bit disappointing to me at first but then i looked at this overall package okay so for 19.99 this is the same price as the 14-inch base model macbook pro but you're getting two additional performance cores for the cpu you're getting 10 additional gpu cores you're getting double the ram at 32 gigabytes and the same 512 gigabytes of storage now sure with the macbook pro you have the benefit of having inputs like a keyboard and a trackpad you have an output like a display and speakers that you don't get with the mac studio but as a package i think two thousand dollars for that m1 max is a fairly reasonable deal and i bought that exact base model configuration because we're going to be putting it through its paces to see how it stacks up for that kind of money now if you want a little bit more than that and you want to make a very well-rounded mac studio there are a couple of upgrades that i would probably do and that is first of all to go to the m1 max with the 32 core gpu that's a 200 upgrade to get eight more gpu cores i think that is a pretty decent option i would definitely stick with 32 gigabytes of unified memory because unless you're doing something really crazy 64 is a little unnecessary and then i would probably add a terabyte so for 2 400 i think you'd be getting a really really solid package here and that brings us on to the m1 ultra configuration because well there's no other way of putting this it's twice the price but perhaps that makes sense because it is literally twice everything that we just mentioned 20 cpu cores instead of 10 48 gpu cores instead of 24 32 core neural engine instead of 16 64 gigabytes of ram instead of 32 a terabyte instead of half a terabyte it's twice of everything but guess what folks there is a secret way that you can get an m1 ultra max studio for a little bit less if you go into the base model m1 max one and you upgrade that to the m1 ultra but leave it at 64 gigabytes and take it down to 512 you can save 200 so technically you can get the m1 ultra in a mac studio for 37.99 and then just make sure that you have a lot of external storage so there you go that's a little pro tip for you but for most normal people that are willing to spend four thousand dollars on a mac you're gonna want more than half a terabyte of storage that's almost a ridiculous thing to have to say but if we go through this upgrade tree you'll notice that 48 core gpu costs a thousand dollars to upgrade to the 64. that is a really steep price but that's the one that i ordered i said you know what we got to find out the most powerful mac how powerful it actually is so i went ahead and upgraded that now as for the ram i'll be honest i have not yet been able to fully saturate 64 gigabytes of unified memory and i think very few people will 99.9 of people should leave it at 64. now as for the storage this is again subjective if you do 8 terabytes you're looking at a pretty hefty price tag but if you scale it back to a more realistic four or even two you're looking at the low to high five thousand dollar range for this thing with pretty decent specs now i guess we should also mention that when we're talking about this package it's not actually a complete package because i spent five thousand dollars on my mac studio and i did not get a keyboard i did not get a mouse i did not get a display so what would it actually cost to do this whole thing and and get all of it well with my particular configuration of five thousand dollars i added the new studio display i have to you know so standard glass of course i'm not gonna pay for the nano texture although it is a less expensive upgrade here it's 300 instead of like 500 which it has been in the past uh for the standard price of 15.99 you get basically the same stand as the 24 inch imac which i leaked by the way that was spot on but you can also add essentially the pro stand for 400 so at least it's not a thousand but i also said no thanks don't need that so my total came to 65.98 but then you got to add the magic keyboard with touch id and numeric keypad that's 200 and then you add the magic mouse that's 100 you can also now get applecare plus on a yearly subscription this is something that i don't think has been around before so with everything added up here including the keyboard and mouse to fill out that apple aesthetic we're looking at seven thousand three hundred and nine dollars and at that point i mean we can talk about package all we want but this is darn expensive even if you go for the base model two thousand dollar max studio it's still four thousand dollars by the time you've added a display and the magic mouse and keyboard so it this is not an inexpensive product make no mistake i think the real meta is going to be i think the meta here is going to be using your own accessories and not paying apples extremely high prices for the display keyboard and mouse but we'll have to see i hope the display can prove that it's worth sixteen hundred dollars you can get a lot of monitor for that kind of money um but we're gonna have to wait and find out i'm really excited to get my hands on all this stuff it's coming next friday on march 18th so you're definitely going to want to be subscribed and turn on notifications because i spent ten thousand dollars for you guys so you better watch the videos please please watch the videos so with that thank you guys so much for watching like comment subscribe i'll see you in the next one youokay all right you got me peak performance yet they delivered on that i think i think it's safe to say that we have just experienced an absolute banger of an apple event and guess what i uh i don't want to brag but i think i was pretty darn close with the leaks that i talked about yesterday so today what we're going to focus on is the new m1 ultra chip we're going to be diving into the performance charts that apple brought up discussing the value and the performance of this thing and of course we're going to be talking about the way that it's implemented in the max studio that i leaked just yesterday so you guys i spent ten thousand dollars today please please get subscribed turn on notifications and like this video a ton of coverage is going to be coming your way and you're not going to want to miss it and without any further ado let's get into it okay so where do i start this video other than a little tiny bit of a victory lap i'm sorry i had a big leak video yesterday and there were a lot of doubters everyone was saying alleged or oh this guy's a clown or people were saying they're gonna eat their shoes if apple shipped a mac studio that looked like what i showed you yesterday well i mean if you want i can ship you some utensils here's the shade of green for the iphone that i predicted and here's the real one here's the purple ipad that i predicted and here's the real one here's the studio display that i predicted and here's the real one there were only two little details that needed to be changed a little bit on the mac studio so the first one was the top piece my information said that it was glass or polycarbonate that was not the same but we did get the black apple logo correct and then the vent design on the bottom is slightly different but apart from that i got the dimensions right i said it was about four inches tall this was a pretty successful leak so yeah there's my victory lap now let's start talking about this m1 ultra chip this is a new chip that to be honest a number of us saw coming but i don't know that we actually thought it was going to happen today and that you'd be able to order it and get it this month but that's where we are m1 ultra is essentially two m1 max chips glued together and my goodness does that give us quite a bit of power we're talking about 20 cpu cores 16 of which are high performance cores we're talking about up to 64 gpu cores 128 gigabytes of unified memory and 8 terabytes of storage that is absolutely insane it is an absolute monster i mean look at it next to the other chips the thing is massive now as usual apple gave us some rather dubious performance charts so i think now would be a good time to go through them so when apple was talking about the m1 ultra they also compared the m1 max and i think that gives us a little bit of insight for example the first chart that came up was this gpu performance versus power where they claimed that the m1 max is as powerful as a 10 core pc desktop with 65 percent less power now you might be wondering why are they talking about the m1 max performance again we've already had this chip well before it was in a laptop so they were comparing it to laptops now it's in a desktop so it has to compete with desktop processors in this case a core i5 12600 k now that is a little bit interesting because the numbers for both of those processors already exist and they simply don't tell the same tail if you look at cidabench r23 the core i5 12600k scores 40 higher than the m1 max so i don't know what benchmark apple is using here but we're going to take this with a grain of salt and we're going to apply that difference when we talk about the m1 ultra because they basically said that it's more powerful than a core i9 12900k and that it has the same performance as that chip with 100 watts less power interesting interesting now this claim would imply that apple's scaling is simply phenomenal now when you're combining two chips together there's not necessarily a guarantee that you're going to be able to do that perfectly as apple talked about in the keynote in the old way which they used to do on the cheese grater mac pro where they would have two cpus when those things were linked together you lost a lot of performance with that bridge so they have this new unspecified technology that allows them to fuse together with supposedly i guess next to zero compromise so does that claim actually add up well they say that they have a chip that looks to be 20 or 30 percent more powerful than a core i9 12 900 k but as we know from geekbench scores with the m1 max that's a little bit doubtful now we don't know whether the m1 max is going gonna be more powerful in the mac studio than it is in the macbook pro but i'd like to be pleasantly surprised so let's assume that it isn't and let's go ahead and subtract 40 off the m1 ultra when comparing it to the 12900k so if apple says it's about 30 percent more powerful we're gonna say it's about 10 less powerful and if we go ahead and look at the cinebench r23 scores we see that the 12900k gets about 27 thousand 472 in the multi-core test but then let's take 10 off of that as a penalty for apple using these stupid silly little graphs and exaggerating their numbers so we can call that roughly 24 724 and folks that is within like 100 points of double the score of an m1 max like that's just you can't make this stuff up now i would put a caveat here and say that maybe apple is pumping more power into these things and that's why their numbers seem to be a little higher than you would expect but that does not appear to be the case because in all of these charts they show the power consumption being pretty much the same as what they showed when they displayed the macbook pros apple is claiming that the m1 max which as we can see here is using under 60 watts of power can compete with an rtx 3060 ti but the m1 max in the macbook pro doesn't compete with even a laptop 3060 ti so i'm not sure how they're suddenly making this more powerful and so that makes the big reveal the graphics comparison of the m1 ultra slightly doubtful because in this chart they're saying that the m1 ultra at 100 watts of power can compete with an rtx 3090 i mean realistically they're saying it's slightly better but i simply do not think that that is the case there is absolutely no way that by doubling the gpu cores they have taken the m1 max from a 30 60 laptop all the way to an rtx 3090 desktop with this new chip but is it a good value so to figure that out we have to talk about the mac studio apple revealed in their keynote that the mac studio starts at 2 000 and for that you get the binned version of the m1 max with a 24 core gpu that honestly was a little bit disappointing to me at first but then i looked at this overall package okay so for 19.99 this is the same price as the 14-inch base model macbook pro but you're getting two additional performance cores for the cpu you're getting 10 additional gpu cores you're getting double the ram at 32 gigabytes and the same 512 gigabytes of storage now sure with the macbook pro you have the benefit of having inputs like a keyboard and a trackpad you have an output like a display and speakers that you don't get with the mac studio but as a package i think two thousand dollars for that m1 max is a fairly reasonable deal and i bought that exact base model configuration because we're going to be putting it through its paces to see how it stacks up for that kind of money now if you want a little bit more than that and you want to make a very well-rounded mac studio there are a couple of upgrades that i would probably do and that is first of all to go to the m1 max with the 32 core gpu that's a 200 upgrade to get eight more gpu cores i think that is a pretty decent option i would definitely stick with 32 gigabytes of unified memory because unless you're doing something really crazy 64 is a little unnecessary and then i would probably add a terabyte so for 2 400 i think you'd be getting a really really solid package here and that brings us on to the m1 ultra configuration because well there's no other way of putting this it's twice the price but perhaps that makes sense because it is literally twice everything that we just mentioned 20 cpu cores instead of 10 48 gpu cores instead of 24 32 core neural engine instead of 16 64 gigabytes of ram instead of 32 a terabyte instead of half a terabyte it's twice of everything but guess what folks there is a secret way that you can get an m1 ultra max studio for a little bit less if you go into the base model m1 max one and you upgrade that to the m1 ultra but leave it at 64 gigabytes and take it down to 512 you can save 200 so technically you can get the m1 ultra in a mac studio for 37.99 and then just make sure that you have a lot of external storage so there you go that's a little pro tip for you but for most normal people that are willing to spend four thousand dollars on a mac you're gonna want more than half a terabyte of storage that's almost a ridiculous thing to have to say but if we go through this upgrade tree you'll notice that 48 core gpu costs a thousand dollars to upgrade to the 64. that is a really steep price but that's the one that i ordered i said you know what we got to find out the most powerful mac how powerful it actually is so i went ahead and upgraded that now as for the ram i'll be honest i have not yet been able to fully saturate 64 gigabytes of unified memory and i think very few people will 99.9 of people should leave it at 64. now as for the storage this is again subjective if you do 8 terabytes you're looking at a pretty hefty price tag but if you scale it back to a more realistic four or even two you're looking at the low to high five thousand dollar range for this thing with pretty decent specs now i guess we should also mention that when we're talking about this package it's not actually a complete package because i spent five thousand dollars on my mac studio and i did not get a keyboard i did not get a mouse i did not get a display so what would it actually cost to do this whole thing and and get all of it well with my particular configuration of five thousand dollars i added the new studio display i have to you know so standard glass of course i'm not gonna pay for the nano texture although it is a less expensive upgrade here it's 300 instead of like 500 which it has been in the past uh for the standard price of 15.99 you get basically the same stand as the 24 inch imac which i leaked by the way that was spot on but you can also add essentially the pro stand for 400 so at least it's not a thousand but i also said no thanks don't need that so my total came to 65.98 but then you got to add the magic keyboard with touch id and numeric keypad that's 200 and then you add the magic mouse that's 100 you can also now get applecare plus on a yearly subscription this is something that i don't think has been around before so with everything added up here including the keyboard and mouse to fill out that apple aesthetic we're looking at seven thousand three hundred and nine dollars and at that point i mean we can talk about package all we want but this is darn expensive even if you go for the base model two thousand dollar max studio it's still four thousand dollars by the time you've added a display and the magic mouse and keyboard so it this is not an inexpensive product make no mistake i think the real meta is going to be i think the meta here is going to be using your own accessories and not paying apples extremely high prices for the display keyboard and mouse but we'll have to see i hope the display can prove that it's worth sixteen hundred dollars you can get a lot of monitor for that kind of money um but we're gonna have to wait and find out i'm really excited to get my hands on all this stuff it's coming next friday on march 18th so you're definitely going to want to be subscribed and turn on notifications because i spent ten thousand dollars for you guys so you better watch the videos please please watch the videos so with that thank you guys so much for watching like comment subscribe i'll see you in the next one you\n"