Costco Wholesale [costco.com] has for their Members: New Mac Studio Desktop: Apple M1 Max Chip (MJMV3LL/A) on sale for $1499.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member ptlgator for sharing this deal.
Note: You need to be an active Costco Member and signed in to your account to purchase at sale price, otherwise non-members may purchase but are subject to a 5% surcharge.
Specs:
- Apple M1 Max Chip
- 10-core CPU with 8 performance cores and 2 efficiency cores
- 24-core GPU
- 16-core Neural Engine
- 400GB/s memory bandwidth
- 32GB RAM (Unified Memory)
- 512GB Solid State Drive
- Built-in speaker
- Bluetooth 5.0
- Wi-Fi (802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 wireless networking) (IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac compatible)
- macOS Monterey
- Ports:
- 3.5 mm headphone jack
- HDMI port (supports multichannel audio output)
- 4x Thunderbolt 4 (up to 40Gb/s)
- 2x USB-A
- 10Gb Ethernet
- 2x USB-C Ports (Front)
- SDXC Card Slot (UHS-II)
- 7.7-inch-square, 3.7-inch-tall design in silver
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HOWEVER, if you get this deal (M1 Mac Studio). You're saving $246 and the extra tax from the difference in price. You could spent that on something else. The M1 Mac Studio is highly capable of doing heavy video editing. You can wait for the M3 or M4 even. Or heck just ride the M1 Mac Studio until it dies. Up to you.
HOWEVER, if you get this deal (M1 Mac Studio). You're saving $246 and the extra tax from the difference in price. You could spent that on something else. The M1 Mac Studio is highly capable of doing heavy video editing. You can wait for the M3 or M4 even. Or heck just ride the M1 Mac Studio until it dies. Up to you.
Im in the same boat.. are you going to return and get m2? Thinking I will do it for future proofing
No, it's not
That said, the SSD is absolutely not $20 grade. It benches at around 5.5GBps read and 6.3GBps write [macworld.com] which puts it more in the tier of a 500GB Samsung 980 Pro [servethehome.com] which currently sells for around $70.
That said, the SSD is absolutely not $20 grade. It benches at around 5.5GBps read and 6.3GBps write [macworld.com] which puts it more in the tier of a 500GB Samsung 980 Pro [servethehome.com] which currently sells for around $70.
FYI, the 1TB 980 Pro is currently $66. Ships and sold by Amazon. And it comes with 2 months of Adobe Photoshop. So realistically, this 500gb SSD is not more than $25-30 no matter what the actual item is listed at. Nobody is going to buy the 500gb 980 pro for $79 when you can buy the 1TB for $66 from Amazon itself.
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Agreed. I'll bump it up to $40 😀. In any case, that is a huge downside as the biggest use for such a powerful machine is media editing/creation, and 500gb is just a joke. So you need to attach an external drive to this machine for it to be usable. And that is after paying $1500 for it. smh.
I did order the M2 Mac Studio lol. Im planning to hold onto the M1 Mac Studio from Costco in case the M2 turns out to be worse somehow (like SSD being slower than M1). Will wait for the M2 reviews to come out and make my decision then.
Basically any professional video editor will add external storage, even if the SDD is maxed out to 4TB or whatever the top is.