{"id":14354,"date":"2025-03-12T10:05:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=14354"},"modified":"2025-03-12T10:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:05:48","slug":"apple-mac-studio-m4-max-2025-review-small-but-mighty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=14354","title":{"rendered":"Apple Mac Studio (M4 Max, 2025) Review: Small but Mighty"},"content":{"rendered":"


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In her review<\/span> of the 2023 edition of the Apple Mac Studio<\/a>, Brenda Stolyar called the pint-sized powerhouse \u201cthe Goldilocks Mac\u201d\u2014suggesting its combination of performance and price was just about perfect for power users, at least those that don\u2019t need the hemorrhage-level bleeding-edge performance of the Mac Pro tower.<\/p>\n

Today Apple aims to maintain that verdict, upgrading the device to keep up with the times and again releasing the Studio in two versions, one of which should be ideal for any creative.<\/p>\n

The 2025 Mac Studio can be configured either with the new M4 Max CPU or with the M3 Ultra. It may sound counterintuitive, but the M3 Ultra version is the more premium of the two SKUs, by a significant margin; the Ultra design family has been described as merging two Max CPUs that the computer addresses as a single chip. There\u2019s no M4 Ultra CPU yet, so ultra power users get the equivalent of a pair of M3 Max CPUs instead. This isn\u2019t a consolation prize. Most head-to-head benchmarks place the M4 Max as only slightly faster than the 2023-released M2 Ultra, with the M3 Ultra significantly ahead from there. For the moment, Apple bills the new Mac Studio as \u201cthe most powerful Mac ever made.\u201d<\/p>\n

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