Bulky yet compact. Well ventilated and full of I/O ports, yet elegant and refined. Apple’s new Mac Studio is everything a creative professional could ask for. 
In a stark departure from the Jony Ive days, when the designer would impose stark form-over-function decisions even onto Apple’s professional lineup, the company now primarily caters to the needs of a large audience of advanced users.

The two Thunderbolt 4 and the SD-card reader embedded on the front of the computer are a testament to this new design course. Apple, for once, isn’t scared of users making their Mac uglier by sticking long cables in it where everyone could see them. If anything, they’re embracing and playing with the concept by using the ports to create a disjointed Finder icon face (am I the only one seeing it?).

After years of thin, professional laptops that were as beautiful as dysfunctional, it's a refreshing take. Beautiful designs marred by the abysmal quality of the butterfly keyboard or the horrendous thermal performance of Intel chips. 
It’s all thanks to Apple Silicon. The company’s new proprietary chips, including the new impressive M1 Ultra, have freed its designers from previously unsurmountable hardware constraints, letting them explore what a Mac can be today, freely and creatively.