
The water's fine.Īmong the advantages the M1 Max and its similar but less graphically powerful M1 Pro sibling deliver: built-in circuitry for artificial intelligence tasks, a unified memory architecture, and a beefy built-in graphics processing unit. If you're leery about the switch, come on in. The chips are beefier cousins to the A-series chips in Apple's iPhones and iPads. Apple is halfway through a two-year process of replacing Intel processors with its own M-series designs. The improvements, validated with by testing some common Lightroom chores that caused my older Intel-powered Mac to crawl, are thanks to Apple's new chip and Adobe optimization to take advantage of it.

And it's great having an SD card reader back for importing photos and videos from my cameras.

The battery life was similarly impressive. The speed of the new MacBook Pro knocked my socks off. After spending hours using Adobe's Lightroom photo editing and cataloging software, boy, am I glad I did. 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 didn't really need to upgrade to an M1 Max-powered MacBook Pro. 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. The arrival of Adobe Lightroom on M1 Macs and WOA follows last month’s release of a Photoshop Beta on these platforms. “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).
