Supporting the release, Apple published a number of data points to show how powerful these systems can be. The main takeaways: even if you’re using a Mac Studio that’s under a year old, the new model is a welcome speed upgrade, and if you use an M1 Mac Studio you can expect twice the performance (faster rendering, compiling, photo editing).
Numbers are really real-world, so to put these into context, they mean this Mac — the latter-day descendant of the “Smurf” — is powerful enough to take anything you throw at it. And with even more powerful models also available, there’s almost no demanding task you can’t expect this Mac to achieve. Apple Silicon is eating the PC industry lunch.
Higher and higher
Finally, if you upgrade from an Intel Mac, well, just as the move to Intel unleashed Apple’s pro Macs from decades in the PowerPC doldrums, the move to Apple Silicon has utterly unshackled the line. It means that if you’ve come across from an Intel Mac, you’ll be stunned by the huge performance upgrade you experience.
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