According to iFixit, it looks an awful lot like an iMac on the inside, although it’s not quite as empty as the 24-inch all-in-one desktop. The repair gurus also turned their attention to the Studio Display, albeit briefly.
That resulted in a 6 out of 10 score for the desktop. Paired with a series of difficult-to-remove fans, that lack of upgradability counted against the Mac Studio, while iFixit praised its impressively modular ports. However, iFixit’s drive success hints that storage upgrades might be possible in the future.Įlsewhere, iFixit noted the enormous heatsink that keeps the Mac Studio’s chip cool, dubbing it a “monster.” However, as with all Apple Silicon chips so far, the memory is integral to the chip itself, meaning RAM upgrades are not possible after purchase. However, when the existing SSD was swapped for another drive of the same capacity, it worked.Īs explained by Ars Technica, this is probably due to the way Apple’s SSDs work, where the drive’s storage controller is actually included on the Mac’s system-on-a-chip, not the drive itself, which probably results in errors when SSDs are installed in unexpected ways. The company noted the Mac Studio has a spare SSD slot in addition to its base storage slot, but couldn’t get the computer to boot with two drives installed at once. Previous teardowns from YouTubers Max Tech and Luke Miani suggested that the Mac Studio’s SSD could be removed and replaced physically, although neither content creator was able to get a replacement working.
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