High-powered Macs are like buses — you wait an age for them to appear, and then two come along at once. After years of waiting, a refreshed Mac Pro computer appeared at WWDC 2023 — but its thunder was somewhat stolen by a returning, souped-up second generation M2 Max and M2 Ultra Mac Studio line-up.
It’s that top-of-the-line Mac Studio model, with an M2 Ultra, that’s the real agitator here. It packs the exact same chip as the Mac Pro, same maximum 192GB of RAM and same 8TB storage option— but priced $4K cheaper at the entry baseline for the Mac Studio. The only significant difference is the Mac Pro’s PCI expansion slots — and the fact it’s several orders of magnitude bigger than the Mac Studio — making the Mac Pro a more specialist device than ever before.
