Fan Noise… Is the Mac Studio the Loudest Mac Ever? Rather, I’ll address some other concerns and questions that I had while reading forum posts on MacRumors and waiting for the machine to actually show up. I won’t re-hash benchmarks and stress tests… There’s plenty to be found on-line, and your use cases and workflows are likely much different from mine. Something has happened over time where using DevTools in Google Code had become a true exercise in patience, and while I won’t go as far as to say it’s pleasant on the Studio, it definitely is workable again. Basic web browsing is epically fast, and Visual Studio Code is actually snappy. The performance increase while using the machine for what we’ll call “stuff” is subjectively staggering. The measurements I made comparing the SSD I/O shows a 5x improvement, so that’s on par. One project I deal with daily is an Astro.js project with over 10,000 pages, so lots of file I/O… My build time went from 30 minutes down to less than 10 minutes, which alone is a nice productivity win. The little bit of tinkering I’ve done with these tools lives up to the various YouTube reviews, and obviously it’s a quantum leap from the old machine.īut I’m principally doing software development work, and chewing through tens of thousands of markdown files on a regular basis. While I do regularly use Lightroom and the Affinity suite of tools, I don’t do a lot of video or multi-media work on a daily basis. Now that I’ve had this machine running in place for about two weeks, I thought I’d share my subjective experience moving from what was near the top-of-the-line Mac thirteen years ago to a similar candidate today. My Mac Pro has 48GB of RAM, and many of the jobs I run chew up 20GB or more of memory, meaning that even a 64GB memory (especially shared with the GPU) wasn’t going to leave much in the way of future-proofing.īut when the new Mac Studios were announced, I finally had something that looked like a reasonable replacement, and I pre-ordered on announcement day. I’d have upgraded this warhorse some time ago, but Apple’s 2019 Mac Pros landed during a period of budget consciousness, and shortly later, the announced transition to Apple Silicon meant I’d be waiting until an ARM-based machine with a reasonable amount of memory was released. However, as the operating system upgrades became harder to keep up with, and basic things like memory bandwidth and SSD performance leapt further ahead, it’s become time to send this friend out to retirement. I’ve kept it reasonably upgraded, added memory, PCI SSDs and a Radeon RX580 so it would run MacOS Mojave. My 2009 Mac Pro has gone quite a distance with me, and as an investment it’s probably one of the highest returns on capital I’ve made given the amount of consulting work it’s churned out with me.
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