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It could even be that the battery is there to prevent the loss off unsaved work. Macs are designed to mark data as "written to SSD" even though it is only stored in RAM. This is not a problem with Apple laptops, because of the non-removable battery. But without an additional power supply, the data is gone as soon as the power is gone.
Couldn't imagine the thousands of hours of engineering and the money spent on R&D to have everything communicate and work properly. Kudos to Apple for pushing the limits of personal computing.
Hope you have the same respect for the underpaid (somewhat) child Asian labor that actually build these systems for your first world privilege apple fanboia
@@atwajesper9434 to be real though, 6000$ dollar just because it is compact and have *relatively high performance is still pretty ridiculous considering they have already developed this tech since the max chip. I’m impressed by their architecture and how simplified it is but the price range they have is definitely not for 90% of their consumers. *performance of the M1 ultra is still under that of most high-end gpu and cpu. Understandable as it’s ARM-based and perform better when optimized to do so, but lack the variety of programs(unless Apple funds companies to make apps specifically for MacOS).
well... That still makes it *technically* upgradable. Technically, you can add more NAND on a M.2 card and tell the controller to also register it. You could even add a regular off-the-shelf SSD and tell the controller to pass through. That's basically nothing new. Most ARM-SOC devices work that way, because most ARM-SOCs have builtin memory controllers. Technically it's not a bad solution. It's probably just unecessarily locked behind some apple tool so the manufacturer can do this, while the user can't, making the whole thing technically upgradeable, just not user upgradable. It's a feature that is there, so apple can sell different variants without actually having to hardwire them. It's there, so apple can sell an overpriced storage upgrade in the future.
@@Anaeijon It's so you have to pay them to run their proprietary software to flash the controller to register more storage. Same typical Apple greed that we've been seeing since 2013 and beyond. Indefensible.
@@Anaeijon no it doesnt you cannot because its not a m.2 card and the controller will only register the original storage solution size only and only the official apple storage only or the machine goes into panic mode and just blinks a power led light
@@johnDingoFoxVelocity Yes. But you see: it is upgradeable. It's just not user upgradeable. You shouldn't confuse that. You said, it's not upgradeable, which technically is wrong. It's a money making scheme by Apple. Because it is only upgradeable by Apple. It's like a Tesla battery capacity is not user upgradeable. It technically is upgradeable though and Tesla will do it for you - for a high price. Or like a iPhone screen with fingerprint reader is replaceable and repairable. It's just the Problem, that Apple designed the fingerprint reader in a way, that only apple can replaceable it, because it's married to the processor. Or like the Mac Mini storage has a hardware encryption, so you can't replace the SSD and you can't read out the data from a broken device. You could say, it's for security, but there are dozens of better solutions that would result in recoverable, encrypted but readable and decryptable data. But these solutions wouldn't prevent you from swapping the SSD or installing another OS on the Mac Mini.
@@Anaeijon well I mean by that standard the m1 MacBook Air is upgradeable as long as you have the skills to flow bigger memory chips onto the board without damaging the components next to it. does that make it upgradeable? because only a technician can do this work not some regular old Joe with a heat gun and a magnifying glass.
Correction. The storage is not upgradeable. It was tested and the storage units are custom and do not contain ssd controllers. They also seem to be serial number locked to eachother and other storage units from other mac studios do not function in the other port.
Kudos for the warning surrounding the power supply section. The caps can hold mains voltage for days after being switched off. Would give you a nice jolt
Highly unlikely - Apple likely has bleeder resisters on the caps. Might be some residual immediately after disconnection but I doubt the charge stays for long.
Not days. When i was repairing macs. It was about 30 minutes for older gen and then i think it was a couple of minutes for the new iMacs based on their guidance before you could open the device. Though it’s best practice to never touch the caps regardless. Apple has special shields for technicians to place over the power supply
Amazing! It would be interesting a timelapse of how you guys reassembled the Mac, thanks for this videos is very impressive all the hard work you make.
Thank you! It was definitely hard lol! And we didn’t even show all of the disassembly there were way to much screws and cables y’all would have been so bored if the 4 hours of shooting was a 45min video instead of 19 lol 😂
One thing I’d recommend for future teardowns (of any system) is use some type of screw and parts organizer so they don’t get lost or out of sequence. I typically use a magnetic plate for the screws. But I’ve also used ice cube trays, plastic Jello pudding cups, prescription bottles, anything that can safeguard those tiny screws.
Man, I'd love to know .. a) does it boot with the SSD in the wrong slot. b) if you transplant an SSD from one of the other machines, does it see both. I think between the two would answer a whole lot of questions about upgrade potential.
Another question comes up, Since you have shown us that this SSD has yet another Apple 'special ssd connector' which is just as uncommon as the SSDs in Retina Macbook Pros (the first A1398s before 2013) is it going to be only installed by Apple, not even sold as parts (or until OWC gets to back-engineer that later)???
The SSD isn't actually upgradeable since it's married to your T2 chip via a identifier, and you have to DFU-restore it via another mac which doesn't work right now. You also can't plug in a nvme drive with an adapter to get it to work-as the controller is built in.
I think it has to due with the units many received being review units. You don't want to break the unit they sent you and might have to send back. I understand them not wanting to take it apart especially considering how many screws there are
Only problem I have is that you did tear down before benchmarks. I've always known that to be a big no no since something as little as the replacement thermal paste could have an effect especially in something as integrated as this
They have several other Mac Studios so they’ll know if there’s a major disparity that their tampering messed it up. But in that case they could probably just fix it with new thermal paste on the SOC or something.
Watch Louis Rossman’s video. It’s raw SSD storage the controller for the SSD is actually part of the CPU. You can’t just take that SSD out and replace it without work to make it usable. Louis does a great explanation on how the SSD works in the MacStudio
Great video, but for future reference, please (un)screw the tensioning brackets in a cross pattern. Doing them one screw at a time puts un-even pressure on the SOC and while it's probably fine, you do run the risk of having it not seat correctly (affecting thermals) or even possibly damaging it.
Yes, I was grimacing as this guy was unscrewing it wrong. Happily ignorant, blase and uncaring. I don't see the point of this dis-assembly when we have no idea if it can be re-assembled properly, or if it even was. Having more money than sense to uncaringly show a daft dis-assembly sans anti-static tools and bad techie practices just makes him look arrogant and show-offish.
@@mauricegold9377 I was wincing at 10:39-10:44 when an undersized driver bit was being used to crack a factory torqued screw. Might have been a bad camera angle, but I could have sworn that undersized bit was showing torsion shear.
@@timsexton I was wincing at the fact he hadn’t grounded himself at any point in the disassembly! My father taught me to do that back when I was a preteen in the early ’90s, when hardware was far less complex and sensitive than it is today.
@@wisdomyaw03 While it seems that what you say about the re-assembly did work out well, I just cringed to watch the bad practices of not worrying about ESD (electrostatic discharge), and not taking care about opening the device screws gradually, using opposite groups to avoid distorting the case and damaging threads. This comes from many years of working with computer innards in the past. That is all. And when others copy this practice, and if something went wrong. What then?
Bravo Max and Vadim! This is, without a doubt, the most dramatic, exciting, suspenseful Mac video I’ve ever seen on TH-cam. Max, your steady nerve in undertaking the teardown while being recorded - even if there was some editing, though I didn’t notice any - is admirable, and your spontaneous reactions to what you found as you went deeper really added to the excitement. Please imagine me giving you both a standing ovation!
24 hours after you posted this video, and you are still the ONLY ONE to teardown the Mac Studio. Great reveals of the upgradability. Well deserved scoop.
What if you take apart another Mac Studio, and put that SSD drive in this Mac Studio? Edit: Luke maini did it and it did not work, he’s trying to use apple configurator 2 to see if that will help
Service tech here. Hopefully you figured this out already but you need to place those SSDs back in their exact same spots. They're in a RAID 0 config basically and encrypted so if you put them out of order, the data is inaccessible. Internal SSDs also require special software to use and install.
Less plastic stuff, no glue, no heating required to disassemble, ports are easily replacable, great performance in small package...so a thumbs up from me. Nice work from Apple and Max 😍
that surgery WAS MASSIVE, i could never even dare to put it back together!! literally just more a piece of motivation for my day, i really hope to take away more from you guys! new subscriber on the way✨
"apple cares" ??? this is wastefully complex parts, and packaging. Imagine the toll on the enviornment for the nuanced and bespoke parts manufacturing. As well as all the byproduct waste for this manufacturing that gets dumped into the enviorment. The apple fanboys who applaud this complexity all tout for all you folks to use less electricity and produce less trash, but will by apple products that have an expoentially large footprint in waste and chemicals byproducts of manufacturing into the enviornment so they can have their apple products.
Your thorough reviews are what convienced me to return to Apple eco system, starting with Macbook Air M1 when it first came out. Your enthusiasm is infectious.
now it somehow justified the price point of the M1 Ultra. Great efforts Max! as always. Let us know if you're able to boot up with other placement of SSD slot?
However, comparisons between the Studio Max and the Studio ULTRA has ONLY shown big advantages in 3D graphics being 'two of everything', Cores, GPUs, Neuros and video Processors, but until Apple stops throttling the software to create the price steps, and until Apple reveals what is really "coming in the next in the next SHOW and TELL, I'll be sticking with the Base Model only increasing the RAM. Apple's 'Mission Impossible imitation' CEO is more interested in Price fixing for Apple's gain, than Playing Fair with the latest SQUARED-UP PRICING, 100, 200, 400, 800.... Steve Jobs would be turning in his grave. It seems... All the 24/48 cores have mistakes as dead cores during TMC's Core production, and rounded up from the BINS to sell anyway, after killing a small number of odd but working cores to make FINAL multiples of 12. WILL THEY FAIL? Non-BINNED CPUS seem to be the BASE STUDIO models and the ULTRA with the maximum working cores!
"apple cares" ??? this is wastefully complex parts, and packaging. Imagine the toll on the enviornment for the nuanced and bespoke parts manufacturing. As well as all the byproduct waste for this manufacturing that gets dumped into the enviorment. The apple fanboys who applaud this complexity all tout for all you folks to use less electricity and produce less trash, but will by apple products that have an expoentially large footprint in waste and chemicals byproducts of manufacturing into the enviornment so they can have their apple products.
I am an ASP for 30 Years, There is ZERO chance of adding a SSD. See Since iMac Pro Systems with parts changes or Additions Need to be Blessed with a An Apple program that takes the Serial #’s And Makes the machine Boot. Not to Mention the Encryption issues with SSD and Logic Board.
Aren't you going to disassemble the other Studio and use that SSD on this one to see if BOTH SSD slots work together? That would really confirm if the SSD can be upgraded. Also, from the teardown, do you suppose the power supply needn't be unscrewed from the shielding? That means you can remove the power supply and shielding as a layer on it's own. Do you think you can replace the Apple logo on the top of the case and make that glow?
Yeaaaaah... bad idea. These are just NAND chips on a PCB, the controller is in the SoC. So there is no way to backup that data without special equipment and technical knowledge how to use it. So you stick in 2 and the system then got 2 OS-installations, no way to know what it will do. Maybe it just doesn't start, maybe it ignores the 2nd SSD cuz it's not formatted how it expects it to be formatted or the 2nd slot wasn't unlocked in firmware. Or maybe it just erases the 2nd NAND-PCB and then your other Mac Studio is basically bricked and you will have some expensive fun with Apple support. No way to know. There are 2 NAND-PCB slots. They work together, or the 2nd one wouldn't be there. Apple wouldn't spend the money for something that can't be used. The question is just, can it somehow be used by consumers or did Apple lock that shit? That is something that needs to be figured out by people with actual technical expertise, not some dude who sees a CMOS battery and talks about how it's there so "just so your stuff is saved when it's turned off"🤦♂. Either OWC (+ maybe other companies) will announce "SSD"-Upgrades for that thing in the next, hrm, I'd guess 2-4 weeks... or it isn't possible without some hacking.
There seems to be tape over the logo like it is on the older iPhone models with aluminium casing, so I think it’s s part separated from the casing like on the older iPhones. So yeah, it should be possible to make this glow.
@@JxcksonSF Did you want to answer to the original comment or really to me? Because it seems like you didn't read my comment. Unless you somehow understand "can be used" (intended to be used by Apple itself, when configuring the system) as "user upgradable" and ignored the following sentence. And that it isn't there for user upgradability is extremely obvious with how hard it is to get there. So, thanks Captain Obvious.
Wow! Thankfully they have not lost Steve Jobs' obsession with internal symmetry and meticulous quality of engineering. Apple products may appear to be expensive but you certainly get what you pay for. Excellent video, guys. Incredibly informative to any new purchaser.
I was really surprised at how easy it was to access the internals. The taped/glued on rubber was clearly intended to dissuade users from upgrading it themselves, but once you take that off, most things come off with screws.
I waited all day for this.Max is probably is probably the best reviewer, has the best unboxing videos, has the best benchmark videos and the best teardowns.Probably one of the best tech TH-camrs of all time.
I was so waiting for a disassembly. Thank you! Need to do an M1 Max disassembly to see if there is any difference between the two. I'm hoping the Max has extra internal ports as well.
Not upgradable, not even an SSD technically. Might want to make sure you check and verify before you assume and tell your followers potentially false information before you perform tests to verify your assumptions. Nice to see a complete tear down though. Very brave of you 😂
Everybody complains about the lack of upgradeability, but that's what contributes to the performance - everything on the chip is how you get the exceptional performance whether it's an M1 or the Ultra.
@@misterstratocasteryes and no. A similarly priced desktop performs much better. The limited upgradability is more due to size. Non upgradable ssd is just malicious tho. Did on purpose to prevent upgrades.
@@misterstratocaster Your comment is a perfect example how apple brainwashed its fanbase. Do research before arriving at a conclusion. that will help you in your whole life.
@@crestofhonor2349 I think it's an apple proprietary ssd like the old macbook pro ones. someone will definitely try making an adapter but I doubt apple silicon will try to support it.
Pretty sure it’s an Apple only ssd. They will for sure sell them or let you bring it in later to upgrade storage. I think in a year or two Amazon will have adapters that let you put the small m.2
it's neat that each connector has its own little board; that makes it so much more repairable. cool that you can upgrade the ssd also. Downside is it's not easy at all to open and access basic component; let alone the fans.
Who cares! When you’re dropping several grand on a professional machine, no matter how hard or time consuming it may be, you sure as heck want to be able to replace… holy shit, ports in pairs and even individually?? Removable SSDs? This thing is both better than an iMac *AND* a PC motherboard. I’ve already ordered one and feel especially validated (and relieved!), but these things man? These will sell like hotcakes. Especially if you can buy parts for it through Apple’s new at-home repair program at some point. Sure, they may be telling you now that this or that is not user-replaceable, but they already laid the groundwork for that, in case the European Commission/Parliament or the US Congress ever pass stringent right-to-repair laws. This thing *IS* user-repairable. I’m waiting for Louis Rossmann *and* Linus freaking Sebastian’s reaction to this with bated breath.
@@Mainyehc bullshit!!! How is it better than the Mac Pro, PC and iMac!? The Mac pro can be absolutely upgraded with terabytes of storage from high capacity HDD to super fast pcie SSD……..
@@carholic-sz3qv Most desktop computers don't allow you to replace a physically damaged USB port without replacing the whole motherboard. In fact, I've never seen a desktop PC before that allowed this. I think it's exciting to be able to replace individual ports one by one, and especially when you consider that TB can deliver quite a bit of power and data and can heat up, it's nice to know that a burnt out TB port can be replaced. I do think the person you're responding to was a bit over-zealous, but on this one thing, I think it's quite nice to be able to replace individual ports.
If you think this is a hard teardown, have a go at the 16" macbook pro. I still have flashbacks to replacing the keyboard on one. This system is complex but no worse than a higher end all in one PC. The small battery is called a P-RAM battery, it just keeps the system clock working when the system is unplugged but also keeps track of brightness, volume setting and other minor stuff like that. I fix macs for a living.
@@possamei OWC and others will come up with an SSD that works with it. Would be cool if someone comes up with an NVMe adapter and makes it work with those short SSDs
@@possamei oh they won’t if they do they would got sue for sure if they really want to make it not possible to upgrade they would just have to not put it there Maybe it’s a slot which design for apple part if there’s a third party part that fit it might work
If your watching the first half of the video while reading the comments the storage is NOT upgradable. The Mac will not boot and will not recover using configurator 2 if you change the storage. It will not recognize a different amount of storage. That is not an SSD there is no storage controller built into it that is on the M1 itself.
It clearly shows due to the number of custom bits, nothing seems off the shelf, that this is expensive to make. No corners cut in design. The motherboard might only be a small part of what this whole thing costs.
Wow! Great video! Did you end up adding extra storage using the extra storage slot? Looking forward to watching the video of you putting this madness back together 😂
Just because a part is replaceable doesn't mean it is upgradeable. Pretty hard to upgrade when there are no aftermarket parts that can be bought. Not to mention that the manufacturer also put in interlocks that prevent upgrading in the first place.
Looks like you found the raw memory module slot, let's hope this makes them easier to repair in the future, but doubt upgrading is going to be a thing anytime soon.
If it ever is, people seem to have forgotten that Apple is _the_ strongest opponent of right to repair, and that their notorious for having their devices practically brick themselves if you try changing anything without Apple technician codes and software.
Looks like the new rule of thumb for Mac Studio purchases will be “base SSD only,” given the fact that there are two sockets that can be upgraded later. Fantastic tear-down video. You guys are amazing.
We have to see whether or not Apple “locked out” third party drives. If it’s proprietary they still might make us “go through Apple” to upgrade the drives. Or they might release an os update to block third party drives. Here’s to hoping?
@J the more I think about it, the more convinced I am that this thing will not be “a niche small specific form factor”… This thing just killed both the regular 27’’ iMac *and* the iMac Pro in one fell swoop. Seriously, those who really need iMacs for their living rooms, schools or POS applications or whatever couldn’t care less for the difference between a 24’’ 4K display or a 27’’; and, IMHO, 24’’ is much leaner and more manageable in those situations. I actually speak from experience here, as I’ve always bought the top-end iMacs of their time - the 17’’ USB 2.0 G4 a few months before the rather top-heavy 20’’ model came out, the Rev. A 20’’ G5, the OG 27’’ Core i5 and the 2017 5K, and those things were BEASTS; conversely, I worked as a Mac room/lab monitor at the Uni, and I loved the portable, smaller 21,5’’ iMacs we bought at some point, because the G5 and 2006 Mac Pro towers we still kept had to be lugged around on carts, and you couldn’t load more than one or two on one of those because you’d risk breaking it. And the Aluminum Unibody 24’’ iMacs, with the plastic back, we had on a classroom were actually quite manageable, too. All those people clamoring for a 30’’ or 32’’ iMac or whatever clearly haven’t thought that through or never had to move their 27’’ iMacs around (or never owned one in the first place), because if they did, they’d seriously rethink their stance. As for professional studios, where downtime is an absolute no-no? Separating the screen from the computer just makes sense, both from a financial and a functional standpoint (namely when it comes to resource management, as you can have some spare computers and screens laying around - or buy new ones outright -, and, short of having to reconnect a few cables, manage any malfunction in a much leaner and flexible way).
@J That’s definitely true, the real question is can WE hack it and upgrade ourselves for a fraction of the cost? And will Apple possibly allow in store Upgrades from the Apple store at least if we want to extend the life of the machine?
@@edwardx.winston5744 Very true, my only concern is the software component because these don’t appear to have controllers on them and that is actually inside the SOC, so can they talk to other brands? Are they serialized? That is the only question left to answer.
Just watched Luke Miani's video attempting to swap the SSD's in the Mac Studio. Any plans to take a swing at it? Would love to see someone successfully swap out the SSD's in these things....
One suggestion when taking the computer apart. Try to get a piece paper and number the squares on a paper. When you take screws out. Put the screw on the papers squares
It's easier to disassemble than an iMac, but there's still a LOT of stuff to unscrew if you just want to clean out the dust from the fan and heatsink. Not worth the risk.
Blowing out dust from those fans and fins would be a common maintenance task for a computer like this with no real dust filters. It's a pity that it's so difficult to access.
@@FromDesertTown Probably not as needed as you'd think. These fans spin very slowly so they wouldn't acquire much dust, and even if they became a bit less efficient, these chips can run pretty well even if the fans completely stop spinning at all. I'd imagine you might wanna clean them out ever few years, if that.
It’s not an SSD and is not upgradable. If you swap it with anything else, even a larger storage chip from another Mac Studio it will not turn on and gives you a flashing error light on the front. Even with the empty slot, Apples firmware would not allow you to upgrade. Other channels have opened multiple Mac Studios and did all kinds of swapping and nothing worked 😕
Wish I could like this video twice. Your guys’ knowledge for tech is quite extensive. Thank you guys for the extra effort that’s put into your videos. It’s very much appreciated! 👍🏼
Apple's M1 Ultra chip in a rack mount version would be a game-changer. As a tech enthusiast, I've been eagerly waiting for a powerful and compact solution that can seamlessly integrate with my Unify network equipment, and this seems to be the perfect fit. The M1 Ultra's performance and efficiency are off the charts, and having it in a rack mount form factor allows for easy installation and management alongside my existing infrastructure. Kudos to Apple for continuing to push boundaries and deliver innovative products that cater to the needs of professionals. Can't wait to get my hands on one and take my setup to the next level...
Yeah but windows won’t allow win for arm to release since no one would buy their products anymore. It’s cheaper, more ecological and in the long run you save multiple thousands just in energy bills compared to daily driving literally any x86 based windows pc. How times have changed , Microsoft with its stupid hardware restrictions for windows11, and hindering progress in the whole industry by not releasing arm windows. Looking forward to a time where you play games in Linux and do everything else on an arm mac and windows becomes obsolete.
Crossover for Mac is way easier, it just treats windows applications like Mac Apps and saves you having to restart the machine each time you need to use a windows program
@Goatyou‘re right , but it depends , I forgot about the rest of the world but when you live in Germany wattage becomes much more of a concern:D but you should also then compare the performance per watt to a similarly capable system, and if energy prices keep rising like they do in the EU it will become even more cost efficient to buy an arm system. You‘re right about the current state of Linux gaming but with valves growing support for the steam deck I hope for a future in which the user can choose their os by featureset and personal preferences instead of its capability to play certain titles.
Even if Boot Camp came back, you'd still be running Windows on ARM which is already terrible on supported hardware, never mind on a Mac. See for example the Surface Pro X, which was a complete disaster with tons of popular apps not running at all on it.
@@desmond-hawkins yes it’s terrible I wouldn’t wanna use it, but I’d still like to have the option to. I know there are a lot of folks out there that had Bootcamp on their x86 macs for that 1 or 2 Programms they needed for work or something. That’s why I think it’s just a casual artificial barrier by m$oft, like the windows 11 required specs. I know there are certain hardware limitations but I also heard that the windows for Arm Mac version that already exists for a year or so is running great and they just won’t release it bc $ Look it up the m1s crushed surface at their own game while being virtualized. Makes total sense , why supply your biggest opponent with software that’s going to make your platform completely obsolete? Except for gaming
It’s for sure proprietary, not even the Mac Pro SSDs fit in there. I wonder if it’s keyed the same as other Apple SSDs, specially the short ones in MacBook Air. Sooner or later someone will make an SSD upgrade kit for Mac Studio
@@crestofhonor2349 it IS proprietary BUT it’s no biggie. There are adapters out there for older Macs to be able to use M.2 NVMe SSDs. Someone will just have come up with an adapter.
Seeing the complexity of the design and assembly (disassembly for you) sheds some light on the “price” Apple is charging. Don’t think I’ll ever need the capability the M1 Max/Ultra provide, but it’s very interesting to see how so much is packaged in such a small space. Hats off to there engineering team. Thanks for the video. Looking forward to future videos.
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The SSD was nice
Beautifully done sir. You are the sole reason why I just bought one. I just wanted to know if I could open it.
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now that speaks up for the term Modularity Apple had on their Mac Studio Keynote
Just one small correction: The battery is most likely there to keep the real-time clock running, not to save unsaved work.
Correct.
u re right
yes, the battery cannot power the ram, if you didn't save, you lost it anyway
And motherboard settings.
It could even be that the battery is there to prevent the loss off unsaved work. Macs are designed to mark data as "written to SSD" even though it is only stored in RAM.
This is not a problem with Apple laptops, because of the non-removable battery. But without an additional power supply, the data is gone as soon as the power is gone.
Important Note; it’s NOT actually upgradable.
Couldn't imagine the thousands of hours of engineering and the money spent on R&D to have everything communicate and work properly. Kudos to Apple for pushing the limits of personal computing.
That's part of the price tag but Apple haters keep complaining about it.
If they find it too expensive, they should get a PC and move on.
That’s probably hundreds of man years given everyone that was involved.
Hope you have the same respect for the underpaid (somewhat) child Asian labor that actually build these systems for your first world privilege apple fanboia
I think Steve Jobs would be proud
@@atwajesper9434 to be real though, 6000$ dollar just because it is compact and have *relatively high performance is still pretty ridiculous considering they have already developed this tech since the max chip. I’m impressed by their architecture and how simplified it is but the price range they have is definitely not for 90% of their consumers.
*performance of the M1 ultra is still under that of most high-end gpu and cpu. Understandable as it’s ARM-based and perform better when optimized to do so, but lack the variety of programs(unless Apple funds companies to make apps specifically for MacOS).
It's not upgradable the ssd controller is on the main board not on the ssd itself
well... That still makes it *technically* upgradable.
Technically, you can add more NAND on a M.2 card and tell the controller to also register it.
You could even add a regular off-the-shelf SSD and tell the controller to pass through.
That's basically nothing new. Most ARM-SOC devices work that way, because most ARM-SOCs have builtin memory controllers. Technically it's not a bad solution.
It's probably just unecessarily locked behind some apple tool so the manufacturer can do this, while the user can't, making the whole thing technically upgradeable, just not user upgradable.
It's a feature that is there, so apple can sell different variants without actually having to hardwire them. It's there, so apple can sell an overpriced storage upgrade in the future.
@@Anaeijon It's so you have to pay them to run their proprietary software to flash the controller to register more storage.
Same typical Apple greed that we've been seeing since 2013 and beyond. Indefensible.
@@Anaeijon no it doesnt you cannot because its not a m.2 card and the controller will only register the original storage solution size only and only the official apple storage only or the machine goes into panic mode and just blinks a power led light
@@johnDingoFoxVelocity
Yes.
But you see: it is upgradeable.
It's just not user upgradeable.
You shouldn't confuse that.
You said, it's not upgradeable, which technically is wrong.
It's a money making scheme by Apple. Because it is only upgradeable by Apple.
It's like a Tesla battery capacity is not user upgradeable. It technically is upgradeable though and Tesla will do it for you - for a high price.
Or like a iPhone screen with fingerprint reader is replaceable and repairable. It's just the Problem, that Apple designed the fingerprint reader in a way, that only apple can replaceable it, because it's married to the processor.
Or like the Mac Mini storage has a hardware encryption, so you can't replace the SSD and you can't read out the data from a broken device. You could say, it's for security, but there are dozens of better solutions that would result in recoverable, encrypted but readable and decryptable data. But these solutions wouldn't prevent you from swapping the SSD or installing another OS on the Mac Mini.
@@Anaeijon well I mean by that standard the m1 MacBook Air is upgradeable as long as you have the skills to flow bigger memory chips onto the board without damaging the components next to it. does that make it upgradeable? because only a technician can do this work not some regular old Joe with a heat gun and a magnifying glass.
Correction. The storage is not upgradeable. It was tested and the storage units are custom and do not contain ssd controllers. They also seem to be serial number locked to eachother and other storage units from other mac studios do not function in the other port.
Kudos for the warning surrounding the power supply section. The caps can hold mains voltage for days after being switched off. Would give you a nice jolt
Highly unlikely - Apple likely has bleeder resisters on the caps. Might be some residual immediately after disconnection but I doubt the charge stays for long.
Not days. When i was repairing macs. It was about 30 minutes for older gen and then i think it was a couple of minutes for the new iMacs based on their guidance before you could open the device. Though it’s best practice to never touch the caps regardless. Apple has special shields for technicians to place over the power supply
@@DocNo27 uhm wrong, expensive devices uses the highest quality components and can still shock you if touched
@@carholic-sz3qv Yes..but to be honest...not if you take it right out of the box and disassemble it ^^
I’ve been shocked before I liked it
Amazing! It would be interesting a timelapse of how you guys reassembled the Mac, thanks for this videos is very impressive all the hard work you make.
Watch the video backwards 😉
@@Mooooooof hahahaha
Was thinking the samething with a lil timer
Thank you! It was definitely hard lol! And we didn’t even show all of the disassembly there were way to much screws and cables y’all would have been so bored if the 4 hours of shooting was a 45min video instead of 19 lol 😂
@@MaxTechOfficial lmao
Putting it back together can actually be fun sometimes
That, was awesome! Thanks for risking damage to your system, to show us what’s inside. That is a beautifully engineered machine!
3 questions: how many hours did it take to assemble and how many screws are left?
And does it still run?
half left probably
One thing I’d recommend for future teardowns (of any system) is use some type of screw and parts organizer so they don’t get lost or out of sequence. I typically use a magnetic plate for the screws. But I’ve also used ice cube trays, plastic Jello pudding cups, prescription bottles, anything that can safeguard those tiny screws.
Man, I'd love to know .. a) does it boot with the SSD in the wrong slot. b) if you transplant an SSD from one of the other machines, does it see both. I think between the two would answer a whole lot of questions about upgrade potential.
I hope that's the next video.
Another question comes up, Since you have shown us that this SSD has yet another Apple 'special ssd connector' which is just as uncommon as the SSDs in Retina Macbook Pros (the first A1398s before 2013) is it going to be only installed by Apple, not even sold as parts (or until OWC gets to back-engineer that later)???
I wonder if it has a proprietary connector for SSD's just in order to let Apple stab you with their stuff prices...
no even with different one from a different system
This is a piece of art.
Amazing engineering efforts done on parts that 99% of the owners won't ever get to see and appreciate.
Lol……
@@carholic-sz3qv you hate apple cos it's cOoL don't you? Sad
@@RK-lq2ud I hate Apple!? Can you prove it!!!? I’m writing this on an iPhone 📱 8 plus you clown 🤡!!!!
I was thinking how can Max top everyones reviews now they've all had them for a week..... I stand corrected!!! amazing stuff
We really care and try out best!
All the other reviewer were using units borrowed from Apple. They couldn’t go in-depth like this.
He is biased towards Apple and his other reviews are VERY VERY biased
@@dinkarfowkar999 you’re just here to say that or you like watching his content too lol?
@@HuyTran-sb2ql I like his genuine unbiased content like this teardown
Unscrew or Disconnect? "Unconnect it is!" hahah. Great work guys, only channel on TH-cam with a thorough teardown. Fascinating for sure.
The SSD isn't actually upgradeable since it's married to your T2 chip via a identifier, and you have to DFU-restore it via another mac which doesn't work right now. You also can't plug in a nvme drive with an adapter to get it to work-as the controller is built in.
Indeed. Apple cryptographically hard-locked the SSD strictly into the Mac Studio it was wedded into.
Props for having balls to disassembly this. Let us know how long it took to put it back together.
Max had it reassembled and fully running before this video even went live! Less than an hour and a half after we finished filming lol.
@@MaxTechOfficial I take it it turned on alright :) Nice
I had serious anxiety thinking about that! But I'm super impressed!
Man, the only TH-camr who has balls to do it! Huge respect!
I think it has to due with the units many received being review units. You don't want to break the unit they sent you and might have to send back. I understand them not wanting to take it apart especially considering how many screws there are
Waiting for Linus video
Only problem I have is that you did tear down before benchmarks. I've always known that to be a big no no since something as little as the replacement thermal paste could have an effect especially in something as integrated as this
Couldn’t agree more!
They have several other Mac Studios so they’ll know if there’s a major disparity that their tampering messed it up. But in that case they could probably just fix it with new thermal paste on the SOC or something.
I appreciate the breakdown, great work guys!!
Oo
Watch Louis Rossman’s video. It’s raw SSD storage the controller for the SSD is actually part of the CPU. You can’t just take that SSD out and replace it without work to make it usable. Louis does a great explanation on how the SSD works in the MacStudio
Great video, but for future reference, please (un)screw the tensioning brackets in a cross pattern. Doing them one screw at a time puts un-even pressure on the SOC and while it's probably fine, you do run the risk of having it not seat correctly (affecting thermals) or even possibly damaging it.
Yes, I was grimacing as this guy was unscrewing it wrong. Happily ignorant, blase and uncaring. I don't see the point of this dis-assembly when we have no idea if it can be re-assembled properly, or if it even was. Having more money than sense to uncaringly show a daft dis-assembly sans anti-static tools and bad techie practices just makes him look arrogant and show-offish.
@@mauricegold9377 I was wincing at 10:39-10:44 when an undersized driver bit was being used to crack a factory torqued screw. Might have been a bad camera angle, but I could have sworn that undersized bit was showing torsion shear.
@@timsexton I was wincing at the fact he hadn’t grounded himself at any point in the disassembly! My father taught me to do that back when I was a preteen in the early ’90s, when hardware was far less complex and sensitive than it is today.
@@wisdomyaw03 While it seems that what you say about the re-assembly did work out well, I just cringed to watch the bad practices of not worrying about ESD (electrostatic discharge), and not taking care about opening the device screws gradually, using opposite groups to avoid distorting the case and damaging threads. This comes from many years of working with computer innards in the past. That is all. And when others copy this practice, and if something went wrong. What then?
This is absolutely by far the best Mac Studio video on the internet so far! Been waiting to see this since the announcement.
What an awesome teardown! You guys rock. Good luck putting it back together… 😀
Bravo Max and Vadim! This is, without a doubt, the most dramatic, exciting, suspenseful Mac video I’ve ever seen on TH-cam.
Max, your steady nerve in undertaking the teardown while being recorded - even if there was some editing, though I didn’t notice any - is admirable, and your spontaneous reactions to what you found as you went deeper really added to the excitement.
Please imagine me giving you both a standing ovation!
24 hours after you posted this video, and you are still the ONLY ONE to teardown the Mac Studio.
Great reveals of the upgradability. Well deserved scoop.
I hope Jerry rig would find some humor tearing this one down, scratching the chassy with his picks and test etc.
What if you take apart another Mac Studio, and put that SSD drive in this Mac Studio?
Edit: Luke maini did it and it did not work, he’s trying to use apple configurator 2 to see if that will help
Service tech here. Hopefully you figured this out already but you need to place those SSDs back in their exact same spots. They're in a RAID 0 config basically and encrypted so if you put them out of order, the data is inaccessible. Internal SSDs also require special software to use and install.
I can’t believe you aren’t well above a million subscribers yet. Your content it awesome! 👍
Less plastic stuff, no glue, no heating required to disassemble, ports are easily replacable, great performance in small package...so a thumbs up from me. Nice work from Apple and Max 😍
that surgery WAS MASSIVE, i could never even dare to put it back together!! literally just more a piece of motivation for my day, i really hope to take away more from you guys! new subscriber on the way✨
"apple cares" ??? this is wastefully complex parts, and packaging. Imagine the toll on the enviornment for the nuanced and bespoke parts manufacturing. As well as all the byproduct waste for this manufacturing that gets dumped into the enviorment. The apple fanboys who applaud this complexity all tout for all you folks to use less electricity and produce less trash, but will by apple products that have an expoentially large footprint in waste and chemicals byproducts of manufacturing into the enviornment so they can have their apple products.
Your thorough reviews are what convienced me to return to Apple eco system, starting with Macbook Air M1 when it first came out. Your enthusiasm is infectious.
You're going to regret that. Apple is a terrible company
@@Evan-xs8ts it’s not lol i have been using apple for years and i don’t regret it
@@furnandorex you're missing out on being able to use your phone the right way
@@furnandorex you don't know what you're missing out on
@@Evan-xs8ts ... since we lost STEVE JOBS, who also controlled the sensible PRICING!!
now it somehow justified the price point of the M1 Ultra. Great efforts Max! as always.
Let us know if you're able to boot up with other placement of SSD slot?
After watching this, the Mac Studio is worth every penny. This thing is an engineering marvel, with SO much care. Wild.
However, comparisons between the Studio Max and the Studio ULTRA has ONLY shown big advantages in 3D graphics being 'two of everything', Cores, GPUs, Neuros and video Processors, but until Apple stops throttling the software to create the price steps, and until Apple reveals what is really "coming in the next in the next SHOW and TELL, I'll be sticking with the Base Model only increasing the RAM. Apple's 'Mission Impossible imitation' CEO is more interested in Price fixing for Apple's gain, than Playing Fair with the latest SQUARED-UP PRICING, 100, 200, 400, 800.... Steve Jobs would be turning in his grave. It seems...
All the 24/48 cores have mistakes as dead cores during TMC's Core production, and rounded up from the BINS to sell anyway, after killing a small number of odd but working cores to make FINAL multiples of 12. WILL THEY FAIL? Non-BINNED CPUS seem to be the BASE STUDIO models and the ULTRA with the maximum working cores!
"apple cares" ??? this is wastefully complex parts, and packaging. Imagine the toll on the enviornment for the nuanced and bespoke parts manufacturing. As well as all the byproduct waste for this manufacturing that gets dumped into the enviorment. The apple fanboys who applaud this complexity all tout for all you folks to use less electricity and produce less trash, but will by apple products that have an expoentially large footprint in waste and chemicals byproducts of manufacturing into the enviornment so they can have their apple products.
So not only is it able to be torn down, but extremely straightforward and easy to do so
I am an ASP for 30 Years, There is ZERO chance of adding a SSD. See Since iMac Pro Systems with parts changes or Additions Need to be Blessed with a An Apple program that takes the Serial #’s And Makes the machine Boot. Not to Mention the Encryption issues with SSD and Logic Board.
Aren't you going to disassemble the other Studio and use that SSD on this one to see if BOTH SSD slots work together? That would really confirm if the SSD can be upgraded. Also, from the teardown, do you suppose the power supply needn't be unscrewed from the shielding? That means you can remove the power supply and shielding as a layer on it's own. Do you think you can replace the Apple logo on the top of the case and make that glow?
Yeaaaaah... bad idea. These are just NAND chips on a PCB, the controller is in the SoC. So there is no way to backup that data without special equipment and technical knowledge how to use it. So you stick in 2 and the system then got 2 OS-installations, no way to know what it will do. Maybe it just doesn't start, maybe it ignores the 2nd SSD cuz it's not formatted how it expects it to be formatted or the 2nd slot wasn't unlocked in firmware. Or maybe it just erases the 2nd NAND-PCB and then your other Mac Studio is basically bricked and you will have some expensive fun with Apple support. No way to know.
There are 2 NAND-PCB slots. They work together, or the 2nd one wouldn't be there. Apple wouldn't spend the money for something that can't be used. The question is just, can it somehow be used by consumers or did Apple lock that shit? That is something that needs to be figured out by people with actual technical expertise, not some dude who sees a CMOS battery and talks about how it's there so "just so your stuff is saved when it's turned off"🤦♂. Either OWC (+ maybe other companies) will announce "SSD"-Upgrades for that thing in the next, hrm, I'd guess 2-4 weeks... or it isn't possible without some hacking.
@@Xirtamani apple definely didnt put it there to be user upgradable. Just like on the tower Mac Pro.
There seems to be tape over the logo like it is on the older iPhone models with aluminium casing, so I think it’s s part separated from the casing like on the older iPhones.
So yeah, it should be possible to make this glow.
@@JxcksonSF Did you want to answer to the original comment or really to me? Because it seems like you didn't read my comment. Unless you somehow understand "can be used" (intended to be used by Apple itself, when configuring the system) as "user upgradable" and ignored the following sentence. And that it isn't there for user upgradability is extremely obvious with how hard it is to get there. So, thanks Captain Obvious.
@@Xirtamani what? no, user upgradable, is the user itself doing it 🙃
Why you even pissed?
I am so happy that apple finally made an upgradeable ssd!
Wow! Thankfully they have not lost Steve Jobs' obsession with internal symmetry and meticulous quality of engineering.
Apple products may appear to be expensive but you certainly get what you pay for.
Excellent video, guys. Incredibly informative to any new purchaser.
You get overpriced shit people that don't have a clue about computers.
I....might buy a shirt after watching this. Sooooo many screws. Removing those ports is crazy!
Thank you for the support!
I was really surprised at how easy it was to access the internals. The taped/glued on rubber was clearly intended to dissuade users from upgrading it themselves, but once you take that off, most things come off with screws.
You call THAT easy access?
@@kayakMike1000 yeah if you're older than 12
I waited all day for this.Max is probably is probably the best reviewer, has the best unboxing videos, has the best benchmark videos and the best teardowns.Probably one of the best tech TH-camrs of all time.
lol. come down bro
First one I see doing this, thank you so much. There are a ton of benchmarks out there for the rest to see.
I was so waiting for a disassembly. Thank you! Need to do an M1 Max disassembly to see if there is any difference between the two. I'm hoping the Max has extra internal ports as well.
Damnnnn that’s some serious engineering and ya no windows looks this elegant from inside 😆
Not upgradable, not even an SSD technically. Might want to make sure you check and verify before you assume and tell your followers potentially false information before you perform tests to verify your assumptions. Nice to see a complete tear down though. Very brave of you 😂
Everybody complains about the lack of upgradeability, but that's what contributes to the performance - everything on the chip is how you get the exceptional performance whether it's an M1 or the Ultra.
@@misterstratocasteryes and no. A similarly priced desktop performs much better. The limited upgradability is more due to size. Non upgradable ssd is just malicious tho. Did on purpose to prevent upgrades.
@@jacobamador7989 Not even similarly priced. You can get comparable performance for 1/2 the cost.
@@misterstratocaster Your comment is a perfect example how apple brainwashed its fanbase. Do research before arriving at a conclusion. that will help you in your whole life.
@@clanpsi yeah
Can you test installing an SSD? Would love to see if that works!
I was going to ask the same thing. In fact, it looked like they put the drive in the empty slot, wonder if it still boots from that controller.
By which ssd
I think it might be reserved for the 8tb model where they put two 4tb ssds in
Maybe its a 2230 m.2 slot. I hope it is
@@crestofhonor2349 I think it's an apple proprietary ssd like the old macbook pro ones. someone will definitely try making an adapter but I doubt apple silicon will try to support it.
Pretty sure it’s an Apple only ssd. They will for sure sell them or let you bring it in later to upgrade storage. I think in a year or two Amazon will have adapters that let you put the small m.2
I'm stressing out...I hope you can reassemble this properly!
Same here. I have concerns for their sister’s safety. 😅
it's neat that each connector has its own little board; that makes it so much more repairable. cool that you can upgrade the ssd also. Downside is it's not easy at all to open and access basic component; let alone the fans.
Who cares! When you’re dropping several grand on a professional machine, no matter how hard or time consuming it may be, you sure as heck want to be able to replace… holy shit, ports in pairs and even individually?? Removable SSDs? This thing is both better than an iMac *AND* a PC motherboard. I’ve already ordered one and feel especially validated (and relieved!), but these things man? These will sell like hotcakes. Especially if you can buy parts for it through Apple’s new at-home repair program at some point.
Sure, they may be telling you now that this or that is not user-replaceable, but they already laid the groundwork for that, in case the European Commission/Parliament or the US Congress ever pass stringent right-to-repair laws. This thing *IS* user-repairable. I’m waiting for Louis Rossmann *and* Linus freaking Sebastian’s reaction to this with bated breath.
yeah, this is shockingly upgradable/repairable imo
It’s also a super tiny SSD so not that worth, a m.2 2280 would have been excellent. The m1 Mac mini is also almost empty with no upgrade possible.
@@Mainyehc bullshit!!! How is it better than the Mac Pro, PC and iMac!? The Mac pro can be absolutely upgraded with terabytes of storage from high capacity HDD to super fast pcie SSD……..
@@carholic-sz3qv Most desktop computers don't allow you to replace a physically damaged USB port without replacing the whole motherboard. In fact, I've never seen a desktop PC before that allowed this. I think it's exciting to be able to replace individual ports one by one, and especially when you consider that TB can deliver quite a bit of power and data and can heat up, it's nice to know that a burnt out TB port can be replaced. I do think the person you're responding to was a bit over-zealous, but on this one thing, I think it's quite nice to be able to replace individual ports.
Great job!
If you think this is a hard teardown, have a go at the 16" macbook pro. I still have flashbacks to replacing the keyboard on one. This system is complex but no worse than a higher end all in one PC.
The small battery is called a P-RAM battery, it just keeps the system clock working when the system is unplugged but also keeps track of brightness, volume setting and other minor stuff like that.
I fix macs for a living.
Would really like to see how ultra compares to iMac Pro 18 core, M1, M1 Max for Logic Pro audio production and xcode compiles.
Great tear down, can’t wait to see the other SSD slot used
knowing apple, they've probably disabled it for third party use and/or uses some proprietary pinout
@@possamei most likely
If they haven't done already, they will in next software update.
@@possamei OWC and others will come up with an SSD that works with it. Would be cool if someone comes up with an NVMe adapter and makes it work with those short SSDs
@@possamei oh they won’t if they do they would got sue for sure
if they really want to make it not possible to upgrade they would just have to not put it there
Maybe it’s a slot which design for apple part if there’s a third party part that fit it might work
First time ever M1 Ultra physically revealed under the hood. Nice! Even had the thermal grease cleaned up 😀
I think the extra performance isn't worth spending twice as much money compared to the M1 Max.
So happy to see the first teardown of Mac studio on your channel...
You guys are insane! This channel must be more than 3 million subscribers! Can't wait to see the full reviews off those bad boys!
*This is the best Mac Studio video on TH-cam.*
*Please tell us you was successful in putting it all back together again?*
Yes it works :)
Mad respect guys! I couldnt do it, my hands would shake too much :))
If your watching the first half of the video while reading the comments the storage is NOT upgradable. The Mac will not boot and will not recover using configurator 2 if you change the storage. It will not recognize a different amount of storage. That is not an SSD there is no storage controller built into it that is on the M1 itself.
It clearly shows due to the number of custom bits, nothing seems off the shelf, that this is expensive to make. No corners cut in design. The motherboard might only be a small part of what this whole thing costs.
Wow it looks absolutely insane. Thanks for the tear down!
Awesome teardown! Thanks!
So... Is it reassembled yet? How long did that take? Did it boot? Did it run without overheating?
Wow! Great video! Did you end up adding extra storage using the extra storage slot? Looking forward to watching the video of you putting this madness back together 😂
Just because a part is replaceable doesn't mean it is upgradeable. Pretty hard to upgrade when there are no aftermarket parts that can be bought. Not to mention that the manufacturer also put in interlocks that prevent upgrading in the first place.
Looks like you found the raw memory module slot, let's hope this makes them easier to repair in the future, but doubt upgrading is going to be a thing anytime soon.
If it ever is, people seem to have forgotten that Apple is _the_ strongest opponent of right to repair, and that their notorious for having their devices practically brick themselves if you try changing anything without Apple technician codes and software.
The videos about the MacStudio everyone’s been waiting for. Best tech channel on TH-cam.
This Mac is INSANE! OMG! So much thought crammed into a chassis that small. Really really impressive!
Wow it’s so small, who cares. It’s not really a laptop which is meant to be portable.
Ballsy to rip that apart out of the box. Looking forward to seeing all your follow up vids.
I always admire how clean inside an Apple device looks. All black and what's not black they cover with black stickers for aesthetics and protection
this is by far the most IN-DEPTH and EXCITING review ever!
The efforts exerted creating this and all other videos is highly appreciated. Keep it up!🙌❤
Man props to you Max for this teardown…… I was on pins and needles just watching as if it was MY 4000+ dollars!
Haha... for me it's like a day in the office! I do this to literally every device I own once I buy them.
Looks like the new rule of thumb for Mac Studio purchases will be “base SSD only,” given the fact that there are two sockets that can be upgraded later.
Fantastic tear-down video. You guys are amazing.
We have to see whether or not Apple “locked out” third party drives. If it’s proprietary they still might make us “go through Apple” to upgrade the drives. Or they might release an os update to block third party drives. Here’s to hoping?
@J the more I think about it, the more convinced I am that this thing will not be “a niche small specific form factor”… This thing just killed both the regular 27’’ iMac *and* the iMac Pro in one fell swoop. Seriously, those who really need iMacs for their living rooms, schools or POS applications or whatever couldn’t care less for the difference between a 24’’ 4K display or a 27’’; and, IMHO, 24’’ is much leaner and more manageable in those situations.
I actually speak from experience here, as I’ve always bought the top-end iMacs of their time - the 17’’ USB 2.0 G4 a few months before the rather top-heavy 20’’ model came out, the Rev. A 20’’ G5, the OG 27’’ Core i5 and the 2017 5K, and those things were BEASTS; conversely, I worked as a Mac room/lab monitor at the Uni, and I loved the portable, smaller 21,5’’ iMacs we bought at some point, because the G5 and 2006 Mac Pro towers we still kept had to be lugged around on carts, and you couldn’t load more than one or two on one of those because you’d risk breaking it. And the Aluminum Unibody 24’’ iMacs, with the plastic back, we had on a classroom were actually quite manageable, too.
All those people clamoring for a 30’’ or 32’’ iMac or whatever clearly haven’t thought that through or never had to move their 27’’ iMacs around (or never owned one in the first place), because if they did, they’d seriously rethink their stance.
As for professional studios, where downtime is an absolute no-no? Separating the screen from the computer just makes sense, both from a financial and a functional standpoint (namely when it comes to resource management, as you can have some spare computers and screens laying around - or buy new ones outright -, and, short of having to reconnect a few cables, manage any malfunction in a much leaner and flexible way).
@@ghost-user559, we’ll just have to hope the fine folks @ OWC reverse-engineer SSD upgrades.
@J That’s definitely true, the real question is can WE hack it and upgrade ourselves for a fraction of the cost?
And will Apple possibly allow in store Upgrades from the Apple store at least if we want to extend the life of the machine?
@@edwardx.winston5744 Very true, my only concern is the software component because these don’t appear to have controllers on them and that is actually inside the SOC, so can they talk to other brands? Are they serialized?
That is the only question left to answer.
Just watched Luke Miani's video attempting to swap the SSD's in the Mac Studio. Any plans to take a swing at it? Would love to see someone successfully swap out the SSD's in these things....
One suggestion when taking the computer apart. Try to get a piece paper and number the squares on a paper. When you take screws out. Put the screw on the papers squares
Can you add extra SSD storage before you put it back ?
Amazing! What makes me excited is that you can add 1 more ssd. I just hope it's compatible with any third party ssd. Thank you for this video.
As you saw it's not,100% apple will sale Maybe next year specific ssd for upgrade only their machines,like xbox
@@MARCO-rq2ph a wishful thinking the 2242 ssd is compatible But you might be right. Guess the SSD will still be expensive for upgrade then.
@@synoykkassey1277 If it turns out to be an apple specific connector, hopefully someone will sell an adapter.
@@mattmarket5642 there's like no space there lol, how would an adapter fit
@@jeekie22 Just like 2012-2015 macbook pro
It's easier to disassemble than an iMac, but there's still a LOT of stuff to unscrew if you just want to clean out the dust from the fan and heatsink. Not worth the risk.
Blowing out dust from those fans and fins would be a common maintenance task for a computer like this with no real dust filters. It's a pity that it's so difficult to access.
@@FromDesertTown Probably not as needed as you'd think. These fans spin very slowly so they wouldn't acquire much dust, and even if they became a bit less efficient, these chips can run pretty well even if the fans completely stop spinning at all. I'd imagine you might wanna clean them out ever few years, if that.
Looking forward to seeing if the SSD is upgradeable and if that means it's also possible for the M1 Max Studio.
It’s not an SSD and is not upgradable. If you swap it with anything else, even a larger storage chip from another Mac Studio it will not turn on and gives you a flashing error light on the front. Even with the empty slot, Apples firmware would not allow you to upgrade. Other channels have opened multiple Mac Studios and did all kinds of swapping and nothing worked 😕
You can’t even replace the SSD inside it the second slot doesn’t work. Probably one of the least upgradeable Mac yet
iFixit, how can you not sponsor this man!
This machine is a truly beautiful piece of engineering. Wow. Thanks for doing this tear down, guys. Great job.
Wish I could like this video twice. Your guys’ knowledge for tech is quite extensive. Thank you guys for the extra effort that’s put into your videos. It’s very much appreciated! 👍🏼
Tech TH-camr doesnt know what a bios battery IS
Ay lmao
Insane knowledge
Deadly power delivery system, can't imagine when the first one gets shock because they want to upgrade their storage....
Apple's M1 Ultra chip in a rack mount version would be a game-changer. As a tech enthusiast, I've been eagerly waiting for a powerful and compact solution that can seamlessly integrate with my Unify network equipment, and this seems to be the perfect fit. The M1 Ultra's performance and efficiency are off the charts, and having it in a rack mount form factor allows for easy installation and management alongside my existing infrastructure. Kudos to Apple for continuing to push boundaries and deliver innovative products that cater to the needs of professionals. Can't wait to get my hands on one and take my setup to the next level...
You guys are crazy pulling that apart! Love your work!
Brand new out of the box tear down of the M1 Ultra!? Absolutely fantastic, ballsy, and entertaining work!
I can see the invisible "Don't Try This At Home" warning though out the whole video.
Simply astonishing!!!that thing is smaller than my old video card!!! Mind blown!!!
Seeing you disassemble that is just as impressive as the engineering of the computer.
You gotta do the video of putting Humpty Dumpty back together.
It would be amazing to be able to buy an additional SSD in the future, especially if Boot Camp ever makes it back to Macs.
Yeah but windows won’t allow win for arm to release since no one would buy their products anymore. It’s cheaper, more ecological and in the long run you save multiple thousands just in energy bills compared to daily driving literally any x86 based windows pc.
How times have changed , Microsoft with its stupid hardware restrictions for windows11, and hindering progress in the whole industry by not releasing arm windows.
Looking forward to a time where you play games in Linux and do everything else on an arm mac and windows becomes obsolete.
Crossover for Mac is way easier, it just treats windows applications like Mac Apps and saves you having to restart the machine each time you need to use a windows program
@Goatyou‘re right , but it depends , I forgot about the rest of the world but when you live in Germany wattage becomes much more of a concern:D but you should also then compare the performance per watt to a similarly capable system, and if energy prices keep rising like they do in the EU it will become even more cost efficient to buy an arm system.
You‘re right about the current state of Linux gaming but with valves growing support for the steam deck I hope for a future in which the user can choose their os by featureset and personal preferences instead of its capability to play certain titles.
Even if Boot Camp came back, you'd still be running Windows on ARM which is already terrible on supported hardware, never mind on a Mac. See for example the Surface Pro X, which was a complete disaster with tons of popular apps not running at all on it.
@@desmond-hawkins yes it’s terrible
I wouldn’t wanna use it, but I’d still like to have the option to. I know there are a lot of folks out there that had Bootcamp on their x86 macs for that 1 or 2 Programms they needed for work or something. That’s why I think it’s just a casual artificial barrier by m$oft, like the windows 11 required specs. I know there are certain hardware limitations but I also heard that the windows for Arm Mac version that already exists for a year or so is running great and they just won’t release it bc $
Look it up the m1s crushed surface at their own game while being virtualized. Makes total sense , why supply your biggest opponent with software that’s going to make your platform completely obsolete? Except for gaming
This was awesome. Wow. Nobody does engineering like Apple. Well done Max!
Pretty epic to do a teardown when this is not a typical teardown channel!
I bought a shirt!!
Thanks for all you guys do!
Wow I can’t believe you still read the comments for these videos. You guys are legends fr
The chips under the stickers that you lifted up are the power phases for the motherboard to deliver power to the processor -> VRM
You could make a Glowing logo while you are at it.
Would love to know what key type and length that M.2 SSD is. I wonder if it’s even a format you can buy from other manufacturers
It’s for sure proprietary, not even the Mac Pro SSDs fit in there. I wonder if it’s keyed the same as other Apple SSDs, specially the short ones in MacBook Air. Sooner or later someone will make an SSD upgrade kit for Mac Studio
@@charminbaer2323 Won't be surprised if we see SSD upgrade kits from OWC in the near future!
If it's proprietary than that sucks but if it could take a 2230 that would be even nicer
@@crestofhonor2349 it IS proprietary BUT it’s no biggie. There are adapters out there for older Macs to be able to use M.2 NVMe SSDs. Someone will just have come up with an adapter.
Seeing the complexity of the design and assembly (disassembly for you) sheds some light on the “price” Apple is charging. Don’t think I’ll ever need the capability the M1 Max/Ultra provide, but it’s very interesting to see how so much is packaged in such a small space. Hats off to there engineering team. Thanks for the video. Looking forward to future videos.
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@@MehmetUygun "Are you an English teacher?"
@@MehmetUygun No. I am a bear tamer, astrologist and stripper.
@@MehmetUygun Well done, sir! I was obviously being silly. I hope your 2022 will be better than your 2021. We well. Be good.
@@MehmetUygun as a matter of fact, I am :)
I don't get why LED is on while this thing is put apart? i.e. 8:20 in this video... can anyone explain it? 🤔