Apple launches new Mac Studios with its ‘most powerful chip ever’ — the M5 Ultra
The Verge Antonio G. Di Benedetto ● Covered by 7 sources
Apple’s new Mac Studio gets the M5 Max and a new M5 Ultra. Same tiny case, but now it’s running Apple’s top chip.
Based on reporting by The Verge, Antonio G. Di Benedetto — read the original for the full story.
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Apple has refreshed the Mac Studio lineup with two new chips: the existing M5 Max and a new M5 Ultra. That finally puts the machine back on one chip family, after Apple’s odd split last time around, when the Studio was sold with M4 Max and M3 Ultra versions side by side.
That older setup was confusing on its face. The chip with the lower number, M3 Ultra, was actually the stronger one, and there was never an M4 Ultra at all. Apple has cleaned that up here, at least on paper, by moving both Studio models into the M5 generation.
The hardware itself hasn’t changed much. The new Mac Studio keeps the same small chassis it’s had since 2022, down to the USB-A ports on the back. Inside, though, Apple is billing these as its most powerful systems-on-a-chip yet.
The version with the M5 Max starts with 36GB of unified memory. Apple didn’t change the look, but it did change the part that matters most to the people buying a Mac Studio in the first place.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
Apple loves making the simplest product naming feel like a logic puzzle, and the M3 Ultra/M4 Max mess was a perfect example. This reset is welcome, but it also shows how much of premium computing is still sold on chip labels that sound cleaner than they are. The box stays the same; the marketing gets the big upgrade.
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