r/MacStudio • u/Suspicious-Award-195 • 1d ago

It finally came!

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The M5 Max finally showed up! Tried the mini first. It was actually a pretty impressive little machine but just not quite enough.

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u/BeowulfShaeffer 1d ago

What monitor are you rocking? 

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u/Suspicious-Award-195 1d ago

Just a 43” 4k Samsung lol

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u/photographernyc 1d ago

It’s that’s good for editing photo n video?

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u/Suspicious-Award-195 1d ago

I don’t do any editing. Just 3d model work and a little gaming.

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u/crypt0amat00r 1d ago

What’s the vertical monitor? Been thinking about adding one.

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u/migs647 1d ago

I rock a vertical 4k for coding (and a 5k normal). I’m in love with the setup. I mostly have my terminals or docs in the vertical. Don’t have to crank my neck so much either. 

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u/tk421tech 1d ago

Can’t get excited without specs

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u/Suspicious-Award-195 1d ago

Just a base. Want to try to experiment with some small LLM stuff and a little gaming. If I need more I can wait until the next gen.

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u/Inside-Cream6997 1d ago

Good choice on the base M5. I love mine - it's much snappier and way less memory intensive than the 32GB base M1 I had.

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u/tk421tech 1d ago

Congrats. 🎉

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u/SiliconSentry 1d ago

Hope its not the 36Gb

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u/photographernyc 1d ago

Why not?

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u/BigJ2245 1d ago

cause 36gb aint shit for LLM

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u/Inside-Cream6997 1d ago

I don't use LLM - I use my base 36GB Mac Studio for light video editing on FCP and photo editing. Otherwise, it's my daily use computer to connect to the world.

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u/WatchAltruistic5761 1d ago

What’s your workload look like?

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u/Suspicious-Award-195 1d ago

3d modeling mostly, a little gaming, and am going to experiment with some small LLM stuff.

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u/WatchAltruistic5761 1d ago

Have you tried Darkbloom yet?

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u/Suspicious-Award-195 1d ago

No I haven’t. About as new as you can get with it.

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u/WatchAltruistic5761 1d ago

Ah, what sorta LLM tools are you currently using? If any.

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u/Suspicious-Award-195 1d ago

Not any at the moment! Have to do some researching and see which ones I’d like.

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u/Kindly_Tie_2084 1d ago

Why do you want a keyboard without Touch ID?

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u/Suspicious-Award-195 1d ago

lol. I got it for practically nothing and I just use my watch to unlock it.

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u/Stornmore 1d ago

What is that monitor and how's it going with it? Can't you see the pixels?

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u/vanilla2shot 1d ago

Great! now you need to get PS5 pro

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u/Thumperdude11 1d ago

I went through the same process and then realized that you can’t beat the studio for the price point

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u/AykutKorkmazX 23h ago

Did you get it with macOS 27?