The Mac Maharaja

The Apple Mac Studio is a souped-up version of Apple’s dinky computers that barely take more space than a dinner plate.

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from ₨2,09,900 / apple.com/in

■ Between the M1 Max and the M2 Max chip Apple has increased the efficiency core count by 2. So now you get a 12-core CPU with 8 performance cores (P-cores are the same as M1 Max) and 4 efficiency cores. Oh, and up to a 38-core GPU. Everything else is the same.

■ Putting it next to our reference Intel-based gaming PC with an Nvidia RTX 4090, the Mac Studio M2 Max looks suspiciously feeble. You’ll have to turn water into wine to convince anyone that the Mac Studio is a powerful machine for workloads. Spoiler alert, it is! And where’s my wine?