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. It means that your photos are saved in the cloud and you can access them anywhere and anytime. I can walk away from the computer and get a cup of coffee while those operations take place. Lightroom is a robust but simple to use program for editing photos with a cloud-based workflow. 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. Lightroom isnt the only Adobe software transitioning to the M1 environment. This time I’m using a 2017 MBP, also with 16G memory. Adobe released M1-native Lightroom in December and Photoshop followed in March. 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. This means that the program will now take advantage of the platforms, including their power and efficiency. Lightroom offers easy-to-use photo & video editing tools like sliders to retouch your images, apply photo filters, fine-tune backgrounds, and use transformative presets to quickly add unique adjustments that bring your photos to life wherever you are all in one app. Several years ago I used Lightroom 6 on a late-2015 Retina iMac w/16G memory. Adobe updated Lightroom to natively support Windows 10 on ARM and Apple’s M1 chips. I too am considering the purchase of an M1 Mac.

Lightroom for apple m1