
I would need to move the sliders very, very slowly to allow Lightroom to render the changes I was making. 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. We ran our standard set of Lightroom Classic and Photoshop benchmarks 1 on the fully-loaded M1 Mac mini, M1 MacBook Pro, and 13-inch Intel MacBook Pro, as well as a Black Magic Disk Speed Test. This time I’m using a 2017 MBP, also with 16G memory. Mac Studio is an entirely new Mac desktop. 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. With this release, Adobe says that Lightroom is now available across all the major desktop (Mac, Win, Intel, ARM), mobile (iOS, Android), and web () platforms.I too am considering the purchase of an M1 Mac. Adobe Lightroom CC v4.1 Brings Native Apple M1 Support Tuesday Decem2:58 am PST by Tim Hardwick Adobe today updated Lightroom CC to version 4.

And, yes it plans to continue to invest in and improve Lightroom on Intel-based systems, too, of course. Adobe notes that it will continue to optimize for WOA and M1 in subsequent releases. That said, there’s still work to be done. Instead, it looks like Lightroom is generally available on both ARM-based platforms. We recommend using these apps currently in Mac computers with M1 chip only.) We also continue to test and optimize other apps for Mac computers with Apple silicon. Its my main work station with Mails, Documents and a lot of apps, but still about 1TB free. Adobe Media Encoder (These apps run natively on Mac computers with M1 chip but we're still testing and optimizing them for Mac computers with M2 chip. The arrival of Adobe Lightroom on M1 Macs and WOA follows last month’s release of a Photoshop Beta on these platforms. Im running Lightroom 11.1 native on a Macbook Pro M1 (16GB RAM / 2TB).

“We rebuilt Lightroom to take advantage of the newest performance and power efficiency benefits of the Apple M1 and Qualcomm Snapdragon (for Windows 10) processors.” “The latest version of Adobe Lightroom is now a native app for both Apple M1 and Windows Arm platforms,” Adobe’s Sharad Mangalick announced. Adobe announced today that it has released Lightroom as a native app on M1-based Macs and Windows 10 on ARM (WOA).
