Tech Brew Ride Home · Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Apple has released updated versions of its Mac Studio and Mac Mini. The Mac Studio now features M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips with significant performance boosts in AI and graphics. The Mac Mini is available with new M6 and M5 Pro chips, also offering enhanced AI and graphics capabilities, though both product lines see price increases compared to their predecessors.
“Apple has updated the Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips with up to 4.3 times faster AI performance, faster graphics, and up to 512 gigabytes of unified memory. For $2500, they also unveiled a Mac Mini with M6 and M5 Pro chips with up to four times faster AI performance and up to two times faster graphics for $900 plus with the M6 and $1700 plus with the M5 Pro.”
“Notable that the M6 and M5 Pro Mac Minis are $100 above the previous M4 models in terms of price. And the M5 Ultra Mac Studio is up $200.”
“The M6 Mac Mini now has a 12 core CPU and 12 core GPU along with 170 GBPS of memory bandwidth compared to the M4s 10 core, 10 core setup and memory bandwidth of just 120 GBPS.”