Apple Mac Studio (M5 Ultra) Review: Huge AI And Graphics Power At A Huge Premium
At $11,299, the extra performance over the M5 Max model is only worth it for select buyers.
Steve Dent for Engadget
RATING : 8.9 / 10
For creative or AI pros looking for Apple's most powerful desktop computer, there's now only one model to consider: the Mac Studio. It's the only one equipped with the company's mighty M5 Ultra processor (two M5 Max chips frankensteined together) and support for up to 512GB of unified memory. With all that, it's capable of incredible performance, despite the small size.
This year, though, there's an unpleasant twist. Given that amount of memory, the Mac Studio is particularly vulnerable to the "RAMageddon" crisis that has seen memory prices soar over the last year. The M5 Max model jumped from a base $2,000 price to $2,500, but the M5 Ultra version now starts at $5,500, an enormous jump from the previous model's...
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