If you really want to get into the nitty gritty of the M1 processor, I recommend taking a look at AnandTech’s deep dive which you can find here. Thankfully, other publications and blogs have done a great job of exploring the M1's performance potential. I won’t be spending a lot of time on benchmarks as I have nothing to compare them to. This post is going to focus in large part on my anecdotal experiences in primarily photographic workloads. With that in mind, I wanted to break down my experience with the new M1 Macs from a photographer's point of view. In fact, I can say with confidence that this first generation of Arm-based Macs are likely to stay the sweet spot for many Photographers, especially as Adobe and other creative apps add native software support - more on that later.

While Apple's performance claims seemed too good to be true, early benchmarks paint these chips as some of the more powerful on the market today.īut how does that translate to real-world performance, especially where it concerns photography? Should you even consider one of these Macs when Apple has more powerful silicon on the way? These are the questions I hope to address in this post.Īnd, after a few weeks with one of the new MacBooks - both the Pro and the Air - I’m happy to report that the M1 is just as competent in Photoshop and Lightroom as it is in the synthetic benchmarks that keep popping up in reviews. When Apple announced its first batch of Macs powered by its in-house M1 processor, I was cautiously optimistic.

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