Mac Studio
Apple's desktop box, bought for memory and cores rather than for a screen
Aluminum desktop Mac built on Apple's higher-end chips and sold without a display. It is what people buy when video, audio or running AI models locally outruns a laptop's memory, and plenty of owners sit it under a desk and never touch it, driving it from a laptop or tablet instead.
Who backs it
Sorted by strength of stance
- Federico ViticciDoes it
Apple writer · founder of MacStories
Behind the portable machines he keeps a Mac Studio with an M3 Ultra chip, 512 GB of memory and 8 TB of storage. He added it to the setups page in July 2025 and has kept it through every revision since.
Source: MacStories: Our Setups
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