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Mac Studio, on the other hand, is a little bit of a mixed bag. With the M5 Max MacBook Pro, Apple started including 2TB of storage by default, and as a result – an M5 Max upgrade cost more than it did with M4 Max. For that reason, Mac Studio may cost even more than $2199 with the next generation.
Apple's transition to its own in-house designed silicon based on Arm is bearing fruit (excuse the pun) these days. Now several years into the pivot away from using Intel's x86 chips, Apple's latest generation Mac mini and MacBook systems are impressive ...
Apple also announced two new pricey Studio Display computer monitors. If you're waiting on that rumored entry-level MacBook, the company seems to be saving it for its March 4 media event.
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That said, there’s still more to come: Apple should be releasing an M5 Max and M5 Ultra Mac Studio in the near term future. In the February 22nd edition of his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that the new Mac Studio is on track for the first half of 2026.
The M5 Max has the most robust external display support of all the MacBooks. Through its Thunderbolt and HDMI ports, the laptop supports up to four displays at native resolutions of 6K at 60Hz or 4K at 144Hz. It can also display two screens at up to a native resolution of 8K at 60Hz, 5K at 120Hz, or 4K at 240Hz.
The company also revealed an M4 iPad Air, M5 Pro- and Max-powered MacBook Pro models and a Studio Display XDR.
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