Today we’ve released updates for Camera Raw and Lightroom Classic as well as Lightroom for Windows, Mac, Android, ChromeOS, iOS, and iPadOS. It should give Apple users a big leg up on Windows because there is nothing in the pipeline from Intel or AMD to challenge the M1’s level of performance per watt. If you want to get more technical we can do so in the comments, but I personally have a loaded Apple M1 on order and I’m excited for an Apple Silicon-based Mac Pro in the future because they might actually be worth $15k.Īdobe rapidly supporting Apple’s new platform is huge for creators. I just hope Apple doesn’t run into the limitations that Cyrix did, but I digress. Competition is good for consumers and the Apple M1 has lit a fire under Intel and AMD’s butt that hasn’t been there since the Cyrix days when their processor was far superior for some tasks.

I was one of the many naysayers that thought Apple couldn’t pull off the transition to ARM-based Apple Silicon smoothly and I couldn’t be happier that they seem to have proven me very wrong.

This is an especially big deal for photographers because the Apple M1 allows a $1,000 laptop to perform at the level of the $15k Mac Pro for tasks like photo editing, even while running non-native applications through Rosetta 2. Apple’s new processor is shockingly fast and it is unfortunate that it is only available in 13″ Laptops and the Mac Mini for the time being. Long time readers of the site know I am not a fan of Adobe, but they are transitioning to the new Apple M1 very quickly.

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