Only ten days have passed since the announcement of Mac Studio, a completely new product that expands Apple’s catalog. There are still many curiosities about the product, and if yesterday we learned directly from Cupertino why the version with M1 Ultra weighs 1kg more than the one with M1 Pro, today is already the time to take a look at how it is done inside a Mac Study.
The first units in fact began to end up in the hands of reviewers in the United States, and there are those who immediately went to work to pack a video teardown. It was the YouTuber Max Tech who took apart the Mac Studio in a hurry, and it was not an easy task: but it was worth it.
THE SCREWS ARE THERE BUT CANNOT BE SEEN
As per Apple tradition, Mac Studio is also a product with extremely refined design, smooth, with hidden screws and joints, to the point that looking at it, it looks like a monolithic block, inaccessible, pure and closed-form, born as it is. is, done and over.
But Apple’s magic box is accessible, and how: just remove the rubber ring that is at the base and gives stability to the device on the surfaces to find four screws. At that point, it is sufficient to unscrew them et voilà, the interior of the Mac Studio is served.
TWO SSD SLOTS
And obviously, like all bitten apple products, the aesthetics are also taken care of inside with the various components visually uniform by a gray finish. The most interesting aspect concerns the SSD : Apple in fact indicates that the storage space ” is not accessible to the user “, and advises those customers who believe they may need additional space in the future to ” consider the configurations with higher capacity “.
However, there are two relatively accessible SSD slots within the Mac Studio – which suggests that Apple may offer the option to upgrade the SSD in the future. It would be, after all, a solution already seen with Mac Pro, for which Cupertino sells an SSD upgrade kit.
The video also shows how the integrated SSD module can be moved from one slot to another: another element that suggests a modular and upgradeable future. As for the unified memory, however, there is no doubt or mystery: it is soldered to the chip, and therefore there is no mention of updating it.