Based near Bath, UK, Dan stepped up to Pocket-lint from T3.com where he relaunched the UK lifestyle and technology site after a spell launching and editing Lifehacker UK. He’s a regular at tech shows like CES, Mobile World Congress (MWC) and IFA as well as other launches and events. It's worth noting that Intel has introduced newer 11th generation chips than that model.ĭan Grabham is the former associate editor at Pocket-lint working across features, news and reviews and has extensive experience writing about computing, mobile and internet topics. Both configurations have 16GB RAM and 2TB SSDs and pitched the Apple M1 versus the Intel Core i5, which is presumably the 10th generation 1038NG7 introduced early last year. The comparison was undertaken using the 13-inch MacBook Pro, presumably because it's the only Apple model available with both Intel and Apple chips. Now, there is a caveat (of course) and that is that it doesn't reflect the highest spec of Intel processor available on a Mac - you can get the iMac with Core i9 for example and of course the Mac Pro uses Intel Xeon workstation chips.

We intend to ship Apple M1 native versions as soon as they are ready, so stay tuned!' says the company.Adobe has also released some pretty incendiary data that shows the performance of Creative Cloud apps is significantly better on the M1 chip - an average 83 performance uplift rising to a whopping 88 percent in Photoshop.Īnd if you're thinking this might only reflect a few key features like content-aware fill, you'd be wrong - expert Andreas Pfeiffer undertook 774 benchmark measures across the software suite and published a report showing all the results.ĪI features using Adobe's Sensei machine-learning tech saw around a 4-6 times uplift in performance.

'Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, and Adobe Camera Raw have all been tested and certified to work well with Apple Rosetta emulation as we work on Apple M1 native versions of these apps. Lightroom is available across all the major desktop (Mac, Win, Intel, Arm), mobile (iOS, Android) and web () platforms. 1TB of cloud storage is included with a subscription. The photo editing software is free to download, but requires a $9.99 monthly subscription via Apple's in-app purchase system after a one-week trial. The earlier versions of Lightroom app worked on ‌M1‌ Macs, however, had to be run via Apple's Rosetta software. '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,' wrote Sharad Mangalick, Photo Product Manager, Adobe in a blog post.

And as announced earlier, Lightroom is now a native Apple M1 and Win Arm app in addition to supporting the latest cameras and lenses. Adobe has released updates for Camera Raw and Lightroom Classic as well as Lightroom for Windows, Mac, Android, ChromeOS, iOS, and iPadOS.

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