![]() I think this is a testament to how good macOS Monterey is prioritizing the performance cores for foreground apps and efficiency core for background apps. The Mac Studio didn’t break a sweat with Docker running Kubernetes in the background. Small things like PEP8 integration is out-of-the-box and more complex use case like refactoring. I used to have to compile some libs which makes building Docker images longer on my M1 machines, hence why I still stick with the hackintosh before.įor Python, my IDE of choice is Pycharm, it’s a memory hog but I couldn’t find anything else that helps me write Python with such ease. Some of the Python libraries I needed to work with for work were also available with aarch64 wheels. Official Docker images now mostly have ARM64 arch. ![]() The community is catching up with Apple’s M1, this is a fact. I also tried to export a 5120x1440 HDR video of me flying in Flight Simulator 2020 using Final Cut Pro, it was still quiet. ![]() I managed to get CPU usages to 100% on all cores during testing of a few work related things and I can’t hear the fans, I’m about a meter away from the machine. Have I told you that it’s quiet? Oh yes I did, it’s impossibly quiet under load. I find myself sometimes having to pull the machine towards me to press the button. It’s placed in the back, just like a Mac Mini which forces me to reach and the feel the back chassis because the button is quite flush with the body. Less ergonomic is the placement and feel of the power button. It only took like 17 years for Apple to come up with front ports *sigh. Something to note also, the front USB-C ports are appreciated, I don’t have to reach to the back to plug in a cable to do transactions with my Ledger Nano X for example. You can really go for a minimalist look for your desk if you want to. The Mac Studio though sits perfectly just under my monitor. I couldn’t put it on my table, didn’t fit. The hackintosh it’s replacing was huge in comparison. ![]() With the latest Macbook Pros and this Mac Studio, Apple is. I have not found any other PC equivalent with this form factor this powerful, power efficient and this quiet, none. I said before that as a bonus, because of its small footprint, I can easily carry this machine with me when I go home to Indonesia later in the summer. Fortunately storage is expandable with Thunderbolt, such as with this Sonnet Tech Dual NVMe Dock. Yes I do have an Unraid machine for long term storage which proved to be useful, but with only this small of a storage, it’s preventing me to pursue more creative workflows like music creation. It’s not a deal breaker, I still have ~300GB of free space but there is FOMO of some sort from having non-upgradeable storage. What I don’t like about the base model is it comes with only 512GB of storage. Nothing in my use case brings this machine to the edge of its capability. This ain’t a gimmick, this combination is true power/performance for my use case. The Mac Studio comes with the M1 Max 10 core/10 threads and 32GB of really fast DDR5 memory integrated in the SoC. This served me well, it’s faster than my i7 8700K hackintosh. Specsīefore the Mac Studio, I am coming from an Intel i5 11400 (6 core/12 threads) hackintosh with 32GB of memory. Bonus point for me, when I’m going back to Indonesia in a few more months, I can easily carry the computer with me. I didn’t spend a crazy amount of money and for the performance, it was worth every Dirham. I bought the base model and it serves me exactly how I need it to. After ~4 years of using a hackintosh as my main work machine, and coupled with Apple’s impending deprecation of the x86 architecture, I think Mac Studio is the best machine for me.
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