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 M3 Pro & M3 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.
4th Generation Mac Studio likely to be announced by June 2025
It does appear that Apple is keeping up an annual upgrade cadence for its M Series processors and systems. According to Mark Gurman, Apple’s 2023/2024 M3 Series rollouts will be roughly duplicated a year later as 2024/2025 M4 Series rollouts. Specifically about the Mac Studio he said there will be “A Mac Studio with a high-end M4 chip, coming around the middle of 2025.”
In other words, the M4 Series Mac Studio should be announced by June 2025.
Information will be posted as it becomes available
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-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
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