![]() At $4,000, you can have a fully specced 16” MacBook Pro M2 Max with 1 TB of storage and 64 GB of memory.With the M2 Max running hotter, expect thermal throttling to hit faster on the MacBook Pro. Tests have shown that the M1 Max performs better on the Mac Studio compared to MacBook Pro because of thermal throttling. Thermal performance is another consideration.Meanwhile, the MacBook Pro only has 3 USB-C ports, an HDMI port, and an SD card slot. The Mac Studio has 4 Thunderbolt 4 ports, 2 USB-C ports, SD slot, 2 USB-A ports, an HDMI port, and a 10 Gigabit ethernet ports. Port portability is where the Mac Studio is king.In the base Mac Studio where all 10 compute cores are activated and 24 out of 32 graphic cores of the M1 Max chip are activated, providing a bigger graphic punch than an M2 Pro.The people in this kind of group are software developers, music producers, photographers, and digital artist that works on vector art. Unlike the M1 Pro, the M2 Pro is a highly capable chip that is perfect for people who wanted more power than what the M2 provides but don’t need the heavy lifting capabilities of the M2 Max. The base MacBook Pro has one of the best screens on a laptop, the best speakers in a laptop, and a very good keyboard and trackpad.You sacrifice having mobility and other top-notch peripherals like the Retina Display, speakers, keyboard, and trackpad. The base Mac Studio gives you a more powerful chip, more ports, better thermals, and more modularity than the base MacBook Pro.At $4,000 you have the option to either buy a “base” M1 Ultra Mac Studio or a highly specced 16” MacBook Pro with M2 Max chip.At $2,000 you have the option to either buy a base Mac Studio or a base MacBook Pro, both have their plus and minuses.All are perfectly great computers, but which one gives the most bang for your buck? If your budget is at $4,000, you have the M1 Ultra Mac Studio or a highly specced 16” MacBook Pro. If your budget for a computer is $2,000, you have the base Mac Studio or the case MacBook Pro. What is interesting about Apple’s pricing strategy is that you have multiple choices at each price point. Say we have a certain amount of budget to buy a Mac, which is the better value proposition: a mobile MacBook Pro or a Mac Studio? What do we lose when we go mobile? What do we give up when we take the Mac Studio path? As we go up with our budget, does the pathway become clearer or even more blurred? ![]() Now, we are at the final legs of the transition, the Mac technology stack has become clearer than ever, but there are gaps that need to be answered. The masterstroke is not only that we have new powerful Macs, but Apple also manages to streamline their entire technology stack to their own solution, which is uniquely Apple. One of Apple’s greatest moves in recent years was Apple’s decision to move away from Intel processors for the Mac and transition to their own solution called Apple Silicon.
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