The Mac Studio M4 Max/M4 Ultra will be the best choice for an Apple 2025 desktop for majority of musicians and creators
Apple Mac Studio M4 Max $1999.00 ??? – M4 Ultra $3999.00 ??? minimum per processor type
If you’re a serious pro or amateur musician, you really want the Apple Mac Studio M2 Max & M2 Ultra or the Apple MacBook Pro M4 Pro & M4 Max. A large music and/or video recording studio without budget restraints or someone who must have PCIe slot expansion may want to consider the Apple Mac Pro M2 Ultra. These are the three best computers for creatives you can buy today.
If you absolutely must spend less than $1999.00, consider buying used, refurbished or consumer level Macs like the Macbook Air, iMac or Mac mini. To suggest buying less than an Apple M Series system is bad advice. Also see notes below in the Unified Memory section.
See: Apple Silicon is the DAW standard.
M4 Series Mac Studio could be announced by June 2025 or earlier
Seriously, by the time a new Mac Studio becomes available, it could be an M5 Series.
According to Mark Gurman, there will be “A Mac Studio with a high-end M4 chip, coming around the middle of 2025”. He has also said there will be a refresh between March 2025 and June 2025. I find it hard to imagine Apple would let the Mac Studio (and Mac Pro) stagnate until mid 2025 but here we are.
Apple of course, is notoriously tight-lipped. Time will tell.
Information will be posted as it becomes available
Thanks!
-Yehuda
Manufacturer’s website
https://www.apple.com/mac-studio
Product support, downloads
https://support.apple.com
Videos
Yehuda Rothschild Apple Mac Studio M4 Series YouTube Playlist
Useful Links
Apple related pages
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