M2 Mac Studio & the 15" MacBook Air - nothing else comes close! (CultCast #599)

This week: We react to reviews of the M2 Mac Studio, Mac Pro, and 15" MacBook Air - Plus: all this week's best Apple stories!

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This week's stories

2023 Mac Studio review roundup: Eye-watering power

• The primary difference between the new Mac Studio and its predecessor is the processor, so this was the focus of many of the reviews.

M2 Ultra Mac Pro proves twice as fast as Intel Mac Pro — at half the price

• In Geekbench 6 stats that surfaced online Saturday, the M2 Ultra scored 2,776 and 21,402 in single-core and multi-core benchmarks, respectively. For comparison, the M1 Ultra scores 2,379 and 17,579 in the same set of tests. This indicates Apple’s M2 Ultra packs a 20% faster CPU.

First Benchmark Result Surfaces for Mac Pro With M2 Ultra Chip

• The first Geekbench 6 benchmark result for the new Mac Pro surfaced today, providing a closer look at the M2 Ultra chip's CPU performance in the desktop tower.

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15-inch MacBook Air review roundup: Killer for consumers

• Reviewers have plenty of praise for the first 15-inch MacBook Air, with comments like it “does its job very, very well” (The Verge) and it’s “more than good enough” (CNET).

Cheaper Apple Vision Headset Likely to Launch by End of 2025

• Apple still plans to launch a more affordable version of its Vision Pro headset by the end of 2025, with the non-Pro model likely to be called "Apple Vision One," or more