New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

Re:New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra by contingencies on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @01:11PM (#49437329)

Happy with M4 Mini, although I recommend using a well ventilated M.2 enclosure instead of the integrated docks as I just had a 2TB Kingston die which I'm pretty sure was caused by "zero thermal forks given (chopsticks only)" UGreen hub design. Also can use as a laptop and replace screen/keyboard/whatever when failed/unsuitable. Higher resulting device longevity, especially with Asahi Linux making such great progress. https://github.com/vk2diy/hackbook-m4-mini

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Re:New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra by shaunkoh on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @04:33AM (#49445692)

I got an OWC Express 1M2 precisely because of thermal fears. The heatsink is huge, but no fans. Only real issue is needing to be careful to not nudge the cables.

I also suspect that trying to stream larger LLM models from disk hammered the USB 4 connection too much - lead to system hangs, so now stream from the internal SSD instead.

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Re:New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra by contingencies on Thursday August 27, 2026 @12:58AM (#49459939)

Cool product, thanks. Sent back for Kingston RMA, expecting a new drive soon.

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