Apple’s M5 Ultra Mac Studio Is Absolutely INSANE

Price is the only slide that matters to me.

M6 'weird' usually means packaging or cache changes that don't show in Geekbench headlines. Real story is thermals in thin chassis and sustained performance after twenty minutes. Synthetic peaks don't pay rent.

Nah.

Fan noise under export is my dealbreaker, not Geekbench deltas.

Firmware for a power brick is peak Apple. Wonder what they fixed.

Golden Gate on my M2 Air has been snappy. Spotlight finally feels useful again.

I'd rather better Final Cut sustained perf than another Intelligence demo.

Desktop Macs still win when you want ports, thermals, and upgradeable storage via enclosure workflows. Laptops win when you actually leave the house. Most YouTube comparisons pretend everyone has the same life.

If Studio ships more TB ports without a hub tax I'll consider it.

Here we go again.

M5 Ultra Studio numbers look absurd for video. Price will match.

Hands-on never show real multi-monitor messes. That's where it stumbles.

There goes my wallet.

Hard pass.

Shortcuts on Mac got better; still won't replace a shell script for me.

Dead serious.

Window management still needs Rectangle. Native tiling isn't there yet.

Studio buyers and MacBook buyers argue past each other every generation.

Apple Intelligence on Mac is uneven. Some workflows magic, others slideware.

M5 Ultra Studio makes sense for colorists and 3D people, not family video editors. Marketing will blur that. If you aren't saturating the GPU for hours, a base Mac Mini still punches stupidly hard for the money.