If you can afford to really spend a lot on a new video rendering machine this year (or you can expense it), the Mac Studio M3 Ultra has the potential to be an absolute beast of a production machine. The base $3,999 model has the M3 Ultra chip sporting a 32-core CPU and an 80-core GPU, with 96GB of RAM and a basic 1TB of storage to start.

Unsurprisingly, the performance of the new Mac Studio with M3 Ultra appears to be markedly faster than its predecessor, at least according to initial benchmarks.

With updates to the MacBook Air and Mac Studio, all of the company’s current Macs are now running M4 systems on a chip, except the Mac Pro. To be honest, I’m not sure Apple thinks anyone should be thinking about buying a Mac Pro,