**The Author's Experience with the Mac Studio**

As I began to disassemble my brand new Mac Studio, I couldn't help but feel a mix of excitement and trepidation. The studio, which is part of Apple's latest lineup of creative-focused laptops, promised to deliver top-notch performance and features that would make it an ideal machine for content creators and professionals alike. In this article, I'll take you through my hands-on experience with the Mac Studio, from its packaging to its various components and features.

**The Power Cable**

As I started to remove the power cable from the studio's back panel, I noticed that it was tucked away behind a small flap, almost like a book. This design decision likely aims to make the machine more compact and streamlined, but I have to admit that I'm not too fond of it. The cable itself is already plugged in, which suggests that this might be an integrated power supply, but we'll see how it performs in practice.

**Removing the Power Cable**

After some hesitation, I decided to remove the power cable to get a closer look at the internal components. As I carefully pried it off, I couldn't help but feel a sense of anticipation about what was hidden beneath. And that's exactly what I got – a glimpse into the studio's impressive specs and features.

**The Studio Display**

One of the most interesting aspects of the Mac Studio is its 27-inch 5K Retina display, which boasts a resolution of 5120 x 2880 pixels. This panel is essentially the same one used in the 5K 27-inch iMac, but with some notable differences in terms of design and functionality. I'm excited to explore these features further and see how they impact my workflow.

**The Studio Display's Design**

As I examined the display more closely, I noticed that it has a degree of tilt – although I couldn't quite determine the exact number of degrees. Unfortunately, this aspect is not adjustable, which might be a problem for users who prefer to customize their viewing angles. Despite this, the studio's design does seem relatively compact and lightweight, making it easy to carry around.

**The Studio Display's Performance**

I'm eager to put the studio's display through its paces and see how it performs in terms of color accuracy, brightness, and overall visual fidelity. I've heard mixed reviews about the 12-megapixel webcam, which is powered by the A13 chip inside the studio. I'll be putting this to the test soon and providing my findings in a separate video.

**The Studio's Port Configuration**

One aspect that caught my eye was the port configuration – specifically the Thunderbolt ports. The studio comes equipped with one Thunderbolt 3 port, which should provide plenty of connectivity options for users. While it might not be ideal to have only one USB-C port on such an expensive machine, the additional three USB-C ports do make up for this.

**The Studio's Perforations and Speakers**

As I continued to explore the studio, I noticed some perforations on the top surface, which seem to be intended for cooling purposes. These perforations are quite small and don't appear to be too intrusive, but they do add to the overall design of the machine. The speakers, located at the bottom, also caught my attention – I'm excited to test them out in a future video.

**The Studio's Software Support**

As an M1 Max-equipped laptop, the studio is expected to support iOS 15 and other Apple software. I was surprised to learn that it does indeed run iOS 15, but will require a software update to take full advantage of its features. This should be good news for users who plan on using their Mac Studio as a creative tool.

**Conclusion**

As I put the studio back together after completing my disassembly exercise, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement about this machine's potential. While it may not have been the perfect experience – particularly with regards to the integrated power cable and limited port configuration – I'm confident that the Mac Studio will prove itself to be an excellent choice for creative professionals.

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**Final Thoughts**

As I wrap up this article, I want to thank you for joining me on this journey through the Mac Studio's inner workings. If you have any questions or comments about my experience with this machine, please don't hesitate to reach out in the comments below. Be sure to subscribe to our channel for more videos detailing these new machines, as well as our upcoming review of the iPhone SE and M1 iPad Air.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis video is sponsored by owc so these two just showed up a little later than what i wanted and i'm gonna do way more in-depth videos about each specific device next week but i wanted to unbox the mac studio and the studio display and show you what each one looks like just real quick um yeah i just can't wait so let's go ahead and unbox these so let's start real quick with the mac studio this is the m1 ultra version um we'll unbox this and then get to the studio display but in typical apple fashion we have fantastic packaging uh just a little pull tab here to get inside the box you do get this nice little handle that i've noticed uh kind of made their way in the pro display xdr and the mac or the mac pro and so it's nice to see that here go ahead and unbox it so here at the top we have some documentation uh there's a black sticker and yeah some quick little documents nothing crazy and then just by pulling this little side out here you can go ahead and reach the max studio which is not as heavy actually it's kind of heavy it's very dense let's go ahead here if you guys want to hear what this sounds like not sure if that was satisfying enough but uh yeah so my first impressions of the mac studio is holy cow uh it is actually pretty heavy it is definitely two uh mac minis on top of each other in terms of the height but a lot heavier um and the air i really like this design i'm actually pretty blown away by how cool this looks um you have the perforation here on the back to help with the air and you have um the same thing going on here at the bottom along with that mac studio logo which is really cool and then of course all of the ports now this is the m1 ultra version so the front actually has two thunderbolt ports and an sd card slot and then if we go over to the back these are all thunderbolt ports as well and then you also have a 10 gigabit ethernet port you have the power adapter here two type a hdmi and a high impedance 3.5 millimeter headphone jack so yeah that's pretty much all that you get inside of the box aside from the power cable as well uh there's not a whole lot inside the box that's really all you get so yeah that's the mac studio it's awesome it's super heavy um i can't wait to get going on this and again we'll have more videos on this next week now we have the studio display and this thing is massive and uh i don't know what happened when apple packaged this i'll see if i have a picture of it and i'll try to put it in here but it was like covered in a brown box but only partially covered and i guess it rained on it so the box is wet that's pretty cool thanks ups or apple whoever packaged this destroyed the outer box so i don't really know but anyways they're just like the mac studio we have a poll tab here so i'm gonna go ahead and pull that and again just like the mac studio we have a little handle which is nice helps with carrying it but i'm gonna put it down flat so that i have room to open this up so i blocked the other camera but at least here i can show you what it looks like let's move this around all right so similar to the mac studio you have these little arrows signifying that you should pull this out if you want to unfold the rest it's like an origami box it's pretty crazy how they do this i've always loved apple's attention to detail so we'll take this out so we can get rid of this giant box but real quick inside of the box you do get some documentation and you don't have to spend an insane amount of money apple wants a couple or at least a hundred and some dollars for the uh thunderbolt cable but you do get one might not be the longest one in the world but you do get one here from apple and then of course some documentation the sticker a double sticker black and yeah some documents here nothing crazy and again for those curious you do get this thunderbolt cable it's not the longest thing in the world um so that's probably why you might want to spend the hundred and some dollars on the extra long cable but i have plenty of these lying around so thankfully i don't have to do that but i kind of just wish apple would have included the really big cable that would have been helpful for a lot of people but you do get one so hey and so here is the monitor and uh the one cool thing here on the back this is um the regular stand now for 15.99 you get the tilt stand or a vase amount option now the vase amount option none of the options can be reconfigured after you get it so whatever one you pick at check out is what you are stuck with so i wanted vasa but it wasn't going to come right in time so i stuck with the regular uh tilt adjustment the height adjustment stand where it does height and tilt it's basically a pro display xdr stand uh that one is kind of shipped out to next week i think and also it's 400 more so i just i'm gonna stick with the regular one let's go ahead and here on the back this is the power cable yeah so there you go the power cable is tucked behind here like a book it is already plugged in so that leads me to believe that this is an integrated cable which i don't particularly love i hope i'm wrong but i'm going to check it out and see i'm as soon as i can i want to rip this but i'm probably just going to have to rip this okay so we got the cable out yeah it looks like this is in there so i don't want to keep pulling it and potentially ruin it but here you guys want to hear the sound of taking this off so as you can see here there is the studio display written on the screen protector someone did a pretty bad job of putting this on but let's take this off and yeah so around back the only thing to really mention here is that you get um one thunderbolt port and three usbc so let's bring it around here and see if you can see that even better yeah one thunderbolt port to plug in your computer and then you got three additional usbc so if you couple this with the mac studio which is what i'm gonna do you have a ton of io ports available so there's really no excuse there you shouldn't need a dock but you can always add more and then if we look over here we have the 12 megapixel um webcam which is powered by the a13 chip that's inside of this and we found out recently that it does actually run ios 15 which is pretty crazy to think about um and so that will help power all of this in terms of software and apparently it's going to need a software update already because the 12 megapixel camera is not so great according to recent reports obviously i haven't tested that yet and we will do that fully but yeah so there's gonna be need to be a software update and then up here you've got some perforations as well as down here which is where your speakers are located can't wait to test all of it out guys there will be a video next week um early next week hopefully monday going over my first impressions of what it's like to use the mac studio as well as the uh i'm sorry the studio display as well as the mac studio also for those curious this is a 5k retina display at 27 inches it's pretty much the same panel as what you would get on the 5k 27 inch imac but in this uh similar pro display xdr fashion it's not super thin um as like the 24 inch imac that's kind of what i was expecting but then after seeing the pictures i had different thoughts and then getting it here in person i've noticed that it is pretty thick it's not as thick as the pro display xdr but it is pretty thick and so just wanted to point that out to you but other than that you get your degrees of tilt here i don't know the exact number off the top my head but you do get that and you can't adjust the height so hopefully i can prop this up enough to where that's not a problem for my neck so be sure to subscribe to the channel so you don't miss all of our videos detailing these new machines as well as the iphone se and we also already dropped the m1 ipad air impressions video so yeah please subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any more content from us in the near future before we end today's video i do want to give you more information about today's sponsor owc if you just recently picked up a new mac and are looking to expand ports then the owc thunderbolt hub which is now available for new m1 max and all thunderbolt 3 equipped macs is going to be a great option the owc thunderbolt hub offers the new thunderbolt hubbing technology you can now have four thunderbolt ports plus one usb port on your new apple m1 mac an intel mac with thunderbolt 3 or any thunderbolt 4 pc with this compact hub you can now connect and charge any device with a usbc or usb a connector support up to two 4k displays or a single 5k 6k and ak display add high performance storage including nvme solutions and generally make your workflow work for you by adding av mixers phones or tablets even desktop accessories all through one single thunderbolt port the owc thunderbolt hub is available now and you can click the link in the description down below to pick up one or any other products from owc that you might be interested in this has been dan with macrumors thanks so much for watching and i hope to see you around in the next videothis video is sponsored by owc so these two just showed up a little later than what i wanted and i'm gonna do way more in-depth videos about each specific device next week but i wanted to unbox the mac studio and the studio display and show you what each one looks like just real quick um yeah i just can't wait so let's go ahead and unbox these so let's start real quick with the mac studio this is the m1 ultra version um we'll unbox this and then get to the studio display but in typical apple fashion we have fantastic packaging uh just a little pull tab here to get inside the box you do get this nice little handle that i've noticed uh kind of made their way in the pro display xdr and the mac or the mac pro and so it's nice to see that here go ahead and unbox it so here at the top we have some documentation uh there's a black sticker and yeah some quick little documents nothing crazy and then just by pulling this little side out here you can go ahead and reach the max studio which is not as heavy actually it's kind of heavy it's very dense let's go ahead here if you guys want to hear what this sounds like not sure if that was satisfying enough but uh yeah so my first impressions of the mac studio is holy cow uh it is actually pretty heavy it is definitely two uh mac minis on top of each other in terms of the height but a lot heavier um and the air i really like this design i'm actually pretty blown away by how cool this looks um you have the perforation here on the back to help with the air and you have um the same thing going on here at the bottom along with that mac studio logo which is really cool and then of course all of the ports now this is the m1 ultra version so the front actually has two thunderbolt ports and an sd card slot and then if we go over to the back these are all thunderbolt ports as well and then you also have a 10 gigabit ethernet port you have the power adapter here two type a hdmi and a high impedance 3.5 millimeter headphone jack so yeah that's pretty much all that you get inside of the box aside from the power cable as well uh there's not a whole lot inside the box that's really all you get so yeah that's the mac studio it's awesome it's super heavy um i can't wait to get going on this and again we'll have more videos on this next week now we have the studio display and this thing is massive and uh i don't know what happened when apple packaged this i'll see if i have a picture of it and i'll try to put it in here but it was like covered in a brown box but only partially covered and i guess it rained on it so the box is wet that's pretty cool thanks ups or apple whoever packaged this destroyed the outer box so i don't really know but anyways they're just like the mac studio we have a poll tab here so i'm gonna go ahead and pull that and again just like the mac studio we have a little handle which is nice helps with carrying it but i'm gonna put it down flat so that i have room to open this up so i blocked the other camera but at least here i can show you what it looks like let's move this around all right so similar to the mac studio you have these little arrows signifying that you should pull this out if you want to unfold the rest it's like an origami box it's pretty crazy how they do this i've always loved apple's attention to detail so we'll take this out so we can get rid of this giant box but real quick inside of the box you do get some documentation and you don't have to spend an insane amount of money apple wants a couple or at least a hundred and some dollars for the uh thunderbolt cable but you do get one might not be the longest one in the world but you do get one here from apple and then of course some documentation the sticker a double sticker black and yeah some documents here nothing crazy and again for those curious you do get this thunderbolt cable it's not the longest thing in the world um so that's probably why you might want to spend the hundred and some dollars on the extra long cable but i have plenty of these lying around so thankfully i don't have to do that but i kind of just wish apple would have included the really big cable that would have been helpful for a lot of people but you do get one so hey and so here is the monitor and uh the one cool thing here on the back this is um the regular stand now for 15.99 you get the tilt stand or a vase amount option now the vase amount option none of the options can be reconfigured after you get it so whatever one you pick at check out is what you are stuck with so i wanted vasa but it wasn't going to come right in time so i stuck with the regular uh tilt adjustment the height adjustment stand where it does height and tilt it's basically a pro display xdr stand uh that one is kind of shipped out to next week i think and also it's 400 more so i just i'm gonna stick with the regular one let's go ahead and here on the back this is the power cable yeah so there you go the power cable is tucked behind here like a book it is already plugged in so that leads me to believe that this is an integrated cable which i don't particularly love i hope i'm wrong but i'm going to check it out and see i'm as soon as i can i want to rip this but i'm probably just going to have to rip this okay so we got the cable out yeah it looks like this is in there so i don't want to keep pulling it and potentially ruin it but here you guys want to hear the sound of taking this off so as you can see here there is the studio display written on the screen protector someone did a pretty bad job of putting this on but let's take this off and yeah so around back the only thing to really mention here is that you get um one thunderbolt port and three usbc so let's bring it around here and see if you can see that even better yeah one thunderbolt port to plug in your computer and then you got three additional usbc so if you couple this with the mac studio which is what i'm gonna do you have a ton of io ports available so there's really no excuse there you shouldn't need a dock but you can always add more and then if we look over here we have the 12 megapixel um webcam which is powered by the a13 chip that's inside of this and we found out recently that it does actually run ios 15 which is pretty crazy to think about um and so that will help power all of this in terms of software and apparently it's going to need a software update already because the 12 megapixel camera is not so great according to recent reports obviously i haven't tested that yet and we will do that fully but yeah so there's gonna be need to be a software update and then up here you've got some perforations as well as down here which is where your speakers are located can't wait to test all of it out guys there will be a video next week um early next week hopefully monday going over my first impressions of what it's like to use the mac studio as well as the uh i'm sorry the studio display as well as the mac studio also for those curious this is a 5k retina display at 27 inches it's pretty much the same panel as what you would get on the 5k 27 inch imac but in this uh similar pro display xdr fashion it's not super thin um as like the 24 inch imac that's kind of what i was expecting but then after seeing the pictures i had different thoughts and then getting it here in person i've noticed that it is pretty thick it's not as thick as the pro display xdr but it is pretty thick and so just wanted to point that out to you but other than that you get your degrees of tilt here i don't know the exact number off the top my head but you do get that and you can't adjust the height so hopefully i can prop this up enough to where that's not a problem for my neck so be sure to subscribe to the channel so you don't miss all of our videos detailing these new machines as well as the iphone se and we also already dropped the m1 ipad air impressions video so yeah please subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any more content from us in the near future before we end today's video i do want to give you more information about today's sponsor owc if you just recently picked up a new mac and are looking to expand ports then the owc thunderbolt hub which is now available for new m1 max and all thunderbolt 3 equipped macs is going to be a great option the owc thunderbolt hub offers the new thunderbolt hubbing technology you can now have four thunderbolt ports plus one usb port on your new apple m1 mac an intel mac with thunderbolt 3 or any thunderbolt 4 pc with this compact hub you can now connect and charge any device with a usbc or usb a connector support up to two 4k displays or a single 5k 6k and ak display add high performance storage including nvme solutions and generally make your workflow work for you by adding av mixers phones or tablets even desktop accessories all through one single thunderbolt port the owc thunderbolt hub is available now and you can click the link in the description down below to pick up one or any other products from owc that you might be interested in this has been dan with macrumors thanks so much for watching and i hope to see you around in the next video\n"