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It's worth noting that Intel has introduced newer 11th generation chips than that model.ĭan Grabham is the former associate editor at Pocket-lint working across features, news and reviews and has extensive experience writing about computing, mobile and internet topics. Both configurations have 16GB RAM and 2TB SSDs and pitched the Apple M1 versus the Intel Core i5, which is presumably the 10th generation 1038NG7 introduced early last year. The comparison was undertaken using the 13-inch MacBook Pro, presumably because it's the only Apple model available with both Intel and Apple chips. Now, there is a caveat (of course) and that is that it doesn't reflect the highest spec of Intel processor available on a Mac - you can get the iMac with Core i9 for example and of course the Mac Pro uses Intel Xeon workstation chips. I would need to move the sliders very, very slowly to allow Lightroom to render the changes I was making.Adobe has also released some pretty incendiary data that shows the performance of Creative Cloud apps is significantly better on the M1 chip - an average 83 performance uplift rising to a whopping 88 percent in Photoshop.Īnd if you're thinking this might only reflect a few key features like content-aware fill, you'd be wrong - expert Andreas Pfeiffer undertook 774 benchmark measures across the software suite and published a report showing all the results.ĪI features using Adobe's Sensei machine-learning tech saw around a 4-6 times uplift in performance.

My old iMac was very poor in this regard. What’s important to me is slider performance. I don’t care if they take half as long or twice as long on an M1 Mac. I can walk away from the computer and get a cup of coffee while those operations take place. But, I’m always looking for great performance.Īlmost all reviews of the M1 Macs I have read (or watched on YouTube) focus on import performance, export performance, HDR merge, and/or panoramic merge. However, this MBP has a much better discreet graphics card than the 2015 iMac, and thus better performance. This time I’m using a 2017 MBP, also with 16G memory.

When Adobe moved to the subscription payment plan, I immediately moved to other photo editing tools only to be disappointed and I came back to Lightroom Classic. I thought the performance was less than perfect. Several years ago I used Lightroom 6 on a late-2015 Retina iMac w/16G memory. I too am considering the purchase of an M1 Mac.

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