This laptop is most certainly designed for the power users who need to work and edit on the go, so it definitely won’t be necessary for most users who mostly need a laptop for web browsing, streaming video and office productivity. “With an even more powerful CPU and GPU, support for a larger unified memory system, and an advanced media engine, M2 Pro and M2 Max represent astonishing advancements in Apple silicon”, Apple’s senior VP of Hardware Technologies Johny Srouji said when the processors were announced. Apple reckons the M2 Max is the most powerful and efficient laptop chip in the world and sits above the M2 Pro model. There’s also a 1TB SSD and 32GB of unified memory to do all of that heavy multitasking lifting, but the star of the show is the CPU. The full report at CNET goes more in-depth on what to expect when using the new MacBook Pro with Lightroom and it’s well worth a read if you’re in the market.You’ll get the insanely powerful 12-core CPU and 30-core GPU for all of your creative photo and video editing needs and, dare we say it, it’s a pretty powerful gaming option. Interpreting the raw files to generate full-resolution previews - the most common delay I experience in Lightroom - was 2.5x faster on the new machine.Īnd here’s a chart showing these improvements visually: A panorama merge of two shots took an excruciating 109 seconds on the Intel Mac it was 3.2x faster on the M1 Max MacBook Pro at 34 seconds.

Lightroom still struggles to accommodate Phase One’s enormous 151-megapixel raw files, but the new Mac handled it much better than my older machine. The smallest was merging three 30-megapixel shots into an HDR photo, which took 22 seconds on the Intel machine and 12 seconds on the M1 Max, a 1.9x speedup. That was the biggest speedup in my tests. Merging six 30-megapixel shots into a panorama was 4.8x faster on the new MacBook Pro, taking an average of 14 seconds vs. The results, as you might expect, are impressive. The CNET piece focuses on comparing the new 16-inch MacBook Pro with the 10-core M1 Max chip and 32GB of RAM to the 2019 Intel i7 MacBook Pro.

Now, CNET has published a new report showcasing the power of the M1 Max MacBook Pro for photo editing.

We’ve covered their impressive performance multiple times already, and new reports continue to emerge emphasizing it. It’s no secret that the new M1 Pro and M1 Max MacBook Pros are impressive machines.

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