Teardown your Mac Studio and its display: iFixit's step-by-step tutorial

iFixit disassembled Apple’s new M1 Max Mac Studio today, giving us a preliminary understanding of the components inside the machine. This isn't iFixit's traditional, more detailed teardown, which hasn't been released yet, but it does provide some interesting details about ‌Mac Studio‌.

"If Apple squeezed a Mac Pro into a Mac mini, you'd get something that looked a lot like the new [‌Mac Studio‌]," iFixit said, describing the inside of the machine.

An earlier teardown found that the Mac Studio's SSD was not soldered and can be removed, which iFixit confirmed, but it's unclear if it can be upgraded. iFixit found a spare slot on the logic board and tried to put the SSD in the second Mac Studio into the empty slot, but it didn't work. However, swapping drives of the same capacity between machines does work.

It’s time to see if this modular storage is actually upgradeable. After a lot of testing, some of which was interrupted by Apple's server issues, we actually have some firm answers. We plugged this stick into an empty slot on another base model Mac Studio, but the configurator kept giving us DFU recovery errors. Regardless of configuration, we did not boot two base model drives on one machine.

However, when we swapped out the spare Studio's drive for the drive from the disassembled unit and used Configurator to do a DFU recovery, it worked fine. Storage swapping is possible, at least between two drives of the same size, but upgrades are a no-brainer.

Unlike storage, RAM is built-in, which means you won’t be able to upgrade your Mac Studio’s memory after purchase.

According to iFixit, the ‌M1 Max‌‌Mac Studio‌ has a large heatsink with dual fan assemblies, and the fans are "much larger than other Mac fans." The website also says that the weight of the radiator "literally dwarfs the M1" and is more than six times heavier.

‌Mac Studio‌ has a complex internal structure with brackets, connectors, and Torx screws, which affects repairability and user accessibility. iFixit praised the modular ports and thermal management system, but wasn't happy with the buried fans, potentially non-upgradeable storage, and built-in RAM. ‌Mac Studio‌ has an iFixit repairability score of 6 out of 10. The site says it's a "worthy successor to the Mac mini, but not quite ready for professionals."

iFixit also took a quick look inside the Studio Display and found that the internals look a lot like an iMac. The webcam in the Studio Display is similar to the one in the iPhone 11, but iFixit doesn't have much to say about the Studio Display right now, as a more in-depth teardown is coming in the near future.

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