I must say it's worlds better than it was on my previous laptop. Photoshop is now out of beta and runs natively on M1 architecture.
4K VIDEO EDITING ON MACBOOK PRO PRO
Keep in mind I was screen recording, but even when I wasn't, my 2018 MacBook Pro struggled, so much so that the second part of that video I ended up recording on my desktop because the stuttering was miserable.
You can visibly see exactly what I'm talking about in my video on focus-stacking, where all I've done is layer four images on top of each other and started to stack them. That was my experience on basically every laptop I've owned, knowing I'd reach a point in my edit where there are simply too many layers to zoom in and out smoothly. I realize there are probably quite a few readers out there who use a laptop as their daily computer who likely know the struggle of loading a large image into Photoshop and trying to luminosity-mask it without any stuttering.
For years, I've had the luxury of only using my laptop to manage files out in the field and do some light editing if necessary with the intention of doing most of my work on a desktop. I've always avoided any heavy editing on my laptop in the past, which included pretty much any photo being taken into Photoshop. I've thrown huge images at it with an above-average amount of editing on some of them without issues, and it'll only get better when the native version gets released.
4K VIDEO EDITING ON MACBOOK PRO MAC
If you're on the fence about an M1 Mac because Lightroom Classic doesn't run natively yet, don't hesitate. It's definitely running more smoothly than my old Intel-based Mac, and it feels just as snappy as my desktop. This has not been the case for the new M1 processor so far in my experience. I spent the good part of a day sorting through libraries, editing large panorama images, and adding numerous local adjustments without any hiccups so far. Lightroom runs without a hiccup even on emulation With a large panoramic image or something with quite a few local adjustments, not only did the MacBook get scorching hot, it also couldn't keep up. This breathed a bit of new life into my 2018 MacBook, but performance still felt lacking. Lightroom Classic released version 10 roughly six months ago, and within that version, they added GPU acceleration to things such as zoom scrubbing and local adjustments. This made me a bit hesitant when I finally bought the MacBook Air, but from my research, even the emulation performance was good if not better than my 2.5-year-old MacBook Pro.
Lightroom is the only application within this review still not running natively on the M1 architecture and is being emulated through Rosetta 2, which causes roughly a 20% drop in performance. While it won't be a side-by-side comparison to my old laptop or even my desktop, I will use those to reference my experiences with the M1 MacBook Air. Instead, I'll be approaching this with a real-world perspective, evaluating how well the system functions in my daily workflow using Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, and Premiere. This review won't be filled with in-depth analysis and synthetic benchmarks comparing the performance to multiple other configurations there is a plethora of those types of reviews out there, and I encourage you to find them if that type of thing interests you. In my mind, there was no way the first iteration of their processor could compete with AMD or Intel, right? I was completely wrong. At first, I didn't believe any of what Apple was saying during their keynote announcement, considering they were using arbitrary numbers such as "5x faster than previous generations," and to be honest, even if they used actual statistics, I would have been hesitant. That was until Apple dropped the M1 lineup. I fully intended to get a Dell XPS, a Razer Blade, or something along those lines. Personally, I disliked the direction they took with design by removing the MagSafe power adapter, forcing all USB-C ports, and the nearly $400 impractical Touch Bar, when 9 times out of 10, I simply preferred a row of function keys, all combined with the fact that many other laptop manufacturers had caught up in terms of build quality for their laptops, which was not the case a decade ago. I told myself I wouldn't get another Apple laptop after owning one since 2007. I was recently in the market for a new laptop to replace my old 2018 MacBook Pro and after going through two Touch Bar MacBooks (one died). Now that the dust has settled after a few months for apps to grow into the new system, how well does the M1 chip handle photo and video editing? The M1 architecture released by Apple late last year completely blew away the expectations of many tech enthusiasts, myself included.
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