We think our customers using these new Macs will love the difference, too,' Clark added. 'These great performance improvements are just the beginning, and we will continue to work together with Apple to further optimise performance over time. Our early benchmarking also shows that some operations are substantially faster with the new chip.'Īdobe says that the public beta builds of Photoshop for Mac customers with M1 chips helped the team with feedbacks that helped it make the native app available for the new architecture.Īdobe also hinted at more features being rolled out for users on new Macs with M1 chips. Our tests covered a broad scope of activities, including opening and saving files, running filters, and compute-heavy operations like Content-Aware Fill and Select Subject, which all feel noticeably faster. I would need to move the sliders very, very slowly to allow Lightroom to render the changes I was making.Talking about the new app release, Adobe's Pam Clark said, 'Our internal tests show a wide range of features running an average of 1.5X the speed of similarly configured previous generation systems.

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. Adobe Illustrator and Lightroom are now 80 faster on M1 than on Intel Macs By Arif Bacchus JNow rolling out are native Apple M1 versions of Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and. However, this MBP has a much better discreet graphics card than the 2015 iMac, and thus better performance. Eftakher Alam on Unsplash Photoshop now runs on Apples M1-based. Apple is steadily moving to its new M1 processor and away from its old Intel chip, and while existing software will run just fine under emulation, Adobe has been. Adobe has updated Photoshop to run natively on Apple Silicon Macs.Its fast. Adobe has been working on updates that leverage the power of the new Apple M1 processor, but there’s more. This time I’m using a 2017 MBP, also with 16G memory. Adobe releases M1 native version of Lightroom Classic and other updates. 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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