

With the M1 Max onboard and 64GB RAM there was nothing I could do to cause the Studio to have to think hard at all about what it was doing.

If I was a good-guy hacker in a spy movie, this would be my set-up, with scrolling green code everywhere, hacked surveillance cameras showing me the mean streets of Auckland, a real-time plot of the antagonist's movements and still enough space on the monitors for social media, Netflix, a game or two and my internet browser. That's enough ports to power up to FIVE displays at once - four Pro Display XDRs at 6K resolution over USB-C and one 4K display over HDMI - as well as change your phone and your keyboard at the same time. If that's not enough, then throw in the SDXC card reader and, on my version, two USB-C ports on the front (the M1 Ultra version has two extra Thunderbolt 4 ports there instead).

It measures just 7.7-inches square at the bottom and 3.7-inches high but has more than enough room on the back for four Thunderbolt 4 ports, a 10GB ethernet port, two USB-A ports, an HDMI port and audio jack. The cooling fan alone on my gaming desktop isn't that much smaller than the Studio.
