The company today followed the introduction of its new M4 iPad Air with two additional releases, a MacBook Air with an M4 chip and the latest super-powered upgrades to its most powerful Mac, the Mac Studio. The new Macs come with faster variants of Apple’s existing Apple Silicon processors, including the M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips.

Apple on Wednesday unveiled a major update to the Mac Studio, the first for the workstation desktop Mac in nearly two years. While the Mac Studio still features M-series Max and Ultra chips, Apple this time decided to go with what appears to be a generational split between the two processors.

The Mac Studio is Apple’s ultimate performance computer, but this year’s model came with a twist: It’s equipped with either an M4 Max or an M3 Ultra processor. The latter might seem like a step backward,