Want a new Mac but worried about noise. Which is quieter, Studio Max or Ultra?
Which is quieter, Studio Max or Ultra? I have read the fans constantly run at 1,300 rpm and people are complaining about them not being silent.
Background:
I am moving from a silent 27" late 2013 iMac upgraded to 28Gb RAM and 4Tb SSD storage of which I have already used 2.5Tb. I now need a replacement because it won't run anything later than El Capitan. With global warming and high prices for electricity I want an energy efficient, quiet replacement but Apple have screwed up the options.
- Ideally I would like a new M1 chipped 27" iMac. No, Can't have that.
- More than 4Tb storage? Not on a 24" iMac.
- Laptops? I am definitely not interested, I only use a big screen desktop machine (photo editing, large spreadsheets, database design plus browsing).
Choices now are Mac mini (new) or Mac Studio.
- The Mac mini, designed for consumers perhaps, has no SSD card slot.
- The Mac Studio fans never switch off, that uses power and is said to be intrusively noisy.
- The Mac Studio recommended operating temperature range is only from 10C to 35C, and with much of Northern Europe hitting record high temperatures over 40C quite often in summer and more to come with global warming, 35C is worryingly low.
- Both the Mac mini and the Mac Studio generate cable spaghetti which the iMac significantly got rid of (in-built display, webcam, speakers, SD card reader.
- Bluetooth devices need batteries which are bad for the environment.
So it is likely I will have to get the Mac Studio, despite not doing videos, just Photo editing in Adobe Lightroom - I used to use Aperture but Apple deprecated it before bringing it back after realising their mistake. They are making bad choices based on profits using coercive marketing, and not user needs. Just look at the pricing! Whatever choice I make now will end up with a less Mac-like computer than my late 2013 27" iMac. And it will be noisy which I hate.
It is clear Jonny Ive has left Apple.
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