Migration from iMac Monterey 12.7.6 to new Mac Studio M4

I’m using Mac for about 20 years now. MacBook Pro and then iMac.

I am very satisfied with the brand.

The reason I wanted to warn you is that I’m’ producing travel and architecture videos since a few years now. Since yesterday I was using an iMac 2017 and was very satisfied, but it became to be a bit slow.

so I was waiting for the Mac Studio M4.

I transferred all the data on the new computer and I was confident I will not get bad surprises.

the Mac Studio is very powerful, but when I tested a video recently produced, I had was really badly surprised : the sound is comparable to the one in a smartphone. For production and test of videos, that’s not ideal.

Of course I can use my connected high quality speaker I have in the same room, but this one is connected through airplay. But this means a latency of about one second. For synchronization of image and sound, this is not ideal.

Thing is that I really did not expect this, as the product is called « Mac Studio » which suggest a good sound.

So I will have to find a solution, but I’m limited in room,,,

I used my TM backup to migrate from my iMac running Monterey to Sequoia. I had no issues and only one app that was not compatible. That one app was easily identified and I removed it to the trash. The only user learning curve is that the user interface menus have all changed but with some use you can learn them.

Having been ‘Mac’ since the old grey ‘lump’ that was pre-modem, adoration of the development of product has always been upward and impressive. I fear that it has peaked with the less than a month since commissioning the Mac Studio bespoke. The lovely old dinosaur Mac Pro circa 2008 RAMmed upto to max alongside terabytes of storage, happily pottered on with professional chores and Apps, even FCP X but ‘full’ RAM was too frequent. Let’s recall that this Pro had PCIe/ TOSLINK I/O, and many slots for HDD’s and SSDs like mine. Reading up on Studio guided me towards the spec needed for the work needs (Post production Video & etc.) The edit suite being refurbished to accommodate and enhance including the TOSLINK … not only has the fibre feed via analogue 3.5mm been ‘retired’ but the complete Studio is in capable of providing anything above 2 channel audio even via any of the outlets - I thought they were joking when told this, but an external 3rd party device is apparently required to reproduce the audio needs and expectations a £4K + ‘professional’ computer requires … did I miss something ? Of all the Apple products owned and appreciated here, I have never been so crestfallen as I am with this Studio. The most basic of needs seem to have been ‘forgotten’ for the professional freelancers that are heavily investing in their futures only to find that old is better than new in provision (speed etc., acknowledged) Sequoia and I are still trying to come to a level of acceptance too… ! JUST sharing as an `FYI on the tail of the sound matter. And YES, the ‘stereo’ in built speakers are about as ghastly as the mono one housed in the original Tower Pro - some things never change!

Yes, during setup it will ask if you want to transfer your files, etc. from another drive like Time machine. Pick your backup and proceed.

I'm afraid you will be disappointed by the very poor quality of the sound on Mac "Studio"! Unless you have good external speakers.