Mac Studio with M4 Max and M3 Ultra might be coming

Gurman with the scoop, summarized by MacRumors:

An updated version of the Mac Studio could launch as soon as this week, reports Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The new machine is expected to be equipped with the M4 Max chip that we first saw in the 2024 MacBook Pro models, but Apple apparently does not have an M4 Ultra chip ready to go. Instead, there could be a version of the ‌Mac Studio‌ that uses an M3 Ultra chip. Apple didn't release an M3 Ultra chip alongside the M3 chip lineup, so it would be a new chip even though it's not part of the current M4 family. The current ‌Mac Studio‌ has an M2 Ultra chip, as does the Mac Pro.

Releasing a previous-generation, higher-end chip is utterly routine from every other manufacturer, but Apple doesn't sell chips, it sells computers.

Offering a Mac Studio in M4 Max and M3 Ultra configurations would give Apple’s marketing team a really fucking narrow needle to thread. One imagines the Ultra will be better for massive video exports and the Max will be better for literally every other workflow. Woof.