![]() there was a pull tab and each box opened easily with no tools. As I hovered over the new arrivals with a box cutter, Apple had faked me out. The 2 boxes from Apple arrived on the 18th, the release day. It totaled $4,798 plus tax, but that included the Studio Display (more about that later). I upped the hard drive to 2 TB to match the iMac I was getting rid of. My choice was the Studio with 64 gigs of ram, I opted to spend the additional 200 bucks on a 10 core CPU system with a 32 core GPU, and a 16 core neural engine. Another motivator was that I hated that my laptop was faster than my desktop, and I really wanted to work on a bigger screen. I opted for very fast, as reviewers seemed to be saying the M1 Max was more than enough for a landscape photographer. It came in two versions, very fast, and very fast x 2. I had expected a 27" iMac, but instead, we got something much better: The Mac Studio. I kept wondering when a desktop M1 Mac would come along. Last year I bought the 16" model with the M1 Max chip, and loved it. Things got better with the release of laptops with the new Apple Silicon Mac Book pros. That was too much money for me, so I sat on the iMac hoping for better days. The next significant jump up was to the Mac Pro, originally the awful (in my view) trashcan Mac Pro, and when Apple thankfully ditched it they replaced it with another Intel-based Mac Pro (cheese grater) in 2019. The problem was Apple had a big hole in its lineup. Is there a way I can increase the performance on the Macbook Pro M1? It seems like it's working on the same speed as my Macbook Pro 2012. The Mac Mini has less RAM and SSD free, but there are only a few apps installed and not a lot of data. On my Mac Mini M1 (8GB RAM / 256GB SSD) the same catalog on the same external ssd with the same cable is working just fluid, I never have to wait a second for something. When I wait a few seconds, I can see through about 5-10 photos fluidly again and then the same. ![]() But about every 5 to 10 photos, it stops and i have to wait for about a second to see the photo, then, another second for the next one. ![]() I want to look through a big catalog (83.000 photos / 18.000 in the folder year 2021) of our family photos and rate the photos with stars. ![]() The catalog is on an external ssd drive connected with USB C (3.2 I think). It's my main work station with Mails, Documents and a lot of apps, but still about 1TB free. I'm running Lightroom 11.1 native on a Macbook Pro M1 (16GB RAM / 2TB). ![]()
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