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Apple launches new Mac Studios with its ‘most powerful chip ever’ — the M5 Ultra
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The highest-end Mac desktop starts at $2,499 with an M5 Max or $5,499 with an M5 Ultra.
The highest-end Mac desktop starts at $2,499 with an M5 Max or $5,499 with an M5 Ultra.
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Apple is announcing new models of the Mac Studio, now using the existing M5 Max and a new M5 Ultra. This reunification under one chip generation comes over a year after Apple awkwardly split the Studio between M4 Max and M3 Ultra offerings. (The older sounding M3 Ultra was actually the more powerful one, and there was never an M4 Ultra chip.) The new Studios look identical to previous generations, utilizing the same small form factor chassis since its introduction in 2022 (right down to the USB-A ports on the rear), but inside are Apple’s most powerful SoCs.
The new Mac Studio with the existing M5 Max chip comes with 36GB of unified memory and 512GB of storage, starting at $2,499. That matches the current starting price of the M4 Max model after its $500 price hike in June. The new $5,499 M5 Ultra model starts with 96GB of memory and 1TB of storage. That’s only $200 more than the starting price of the outgoing M3 Ultra model, but keep in mind the M3 Ultra launched at a much lower $3,999 last year.
These new Studios are set to arrive running macOS 27 Golden Gate on September 22nd, alongside the new Mac Minis. But its highest-end M5 Ultra configuration with a whopping 512GB of memory is coming in late-October with pricing TBD for now — though it’s best we start bracing ourselves for the eventual sticker shock.