After the initial euphoria has worn off, I'm now finding that Lightroom feels about 10 times slower than it should be. Yes, its on a beta via Rosetta, but its painful at times. maybe 8GB Ram really isn't enough.
With a small catalogue, my Air M1 with 8Gb is taking 8 seconds from app launch to photo library on display ready to start work. A 90,000 photo catalog on external USB drive takes 11 seconds to launch and display the photo library. I didn't think this was too shabby. This is Lightroom Classic Release 10.1 I'm talking about. Is there a LR beta, I know there's a Photoshop beta.After the initial euphoria has worn off, I'm now finding that Lightroom feels about 10 times slower than it should be. Yes, its on a beta via Rosetta, but its painful at times. maybe 8GB Ram really isn't enough.
I have to admit that a mini is tempting me back to Apple after all this time. My XPS is now 6.5 years old, and although quite acceptable, it could be usefully faster and smoother with brushes and spot removal.
But I WILL resist. [emoji6]
With a small catalogue, my Air M1 with 8Gb is taking 8 seconds from app launch to photo library on display ready to start work. A 90,000 photo catalog on external USB drive takes 11 seconds to launch and display the photo library. I didn't think this was too shabby. This is Lightroom Classic Release 10.1 I'm talking about. Is there a LR beta, I know there's a Photoshop beta.
Overall I’m still very impressed with it, but my comment above was as a result of Lightroom/photoshop getting a little bogged down when editing in both simultaneously.
For example. I’m editing in LR then open 2 or 3 images as layers in photos, doing some blending and masking then exporting back to LR.
I do firmly believe it’s down to Rosetta and Adobe beta so when it’s optimised for native M1 I fully expect it to be improved.
Early adoption does raise these little snags sometimes.
Yes, swap has been up to 11.54gb so not even another 8gb of ram will sort that out.
After the initial euphoria has worn off, I'm now finding that Lightroom feels about 10 times slower than it should be. Yes, its on a beta via Rosetta, but its painful at times. maybe 8GB Ram really isn't enough.
Sorry, 1 further question, it seems the most ram I can opt for is 16gb. Should that be a concern? Doesn't seem like a great deal these days.
What sorts of LR stuff are you doing that need >8GB? Lots of big libraries?
Genuine question, because my post-processing use is so basic, I've not yet had trouble on my 2012 iMac with 8GB and an i7.
I'm currently dithering (sic) between Dark Room and Affinity Photo and Pixelmator Pro. (although none of those are yet installed on the M1 - still pondering)
Depends as the ARM architecture works in a different way to an intel machine.
On a PC I wouldn't entertain anything less than 64gb which is why I spec'd 128gb
I don't know what is lots of libraries, I only have one catalogue going back to 2013 when I started photography but that is not the issue.
So I have two cameras A7C and A7RIV. Processing A7C files are mostly smooth, the larger A7RIV files less so. There is some loading/buffering for few seconds with certain actions like zooming into 100% view, applying auto settings etc. But my iMac (late 2015 model) wasn't exactly instant either.
Even with general processing I have never seen it below 10GB RAM usage.
I have affinity and planning to try pixelmator Pro. But issue with these is they cannot do non-destructive editing like LR and you cannot store your edits separate from the RAWs which is important for me.
Yes, but it is these very applications that are RAM hungry. Throw in larger image sizes, more complex editing (focus stacking, image blending, complex colour corrections) and a lot gets used pretty quickly. 40mp camera systems are now the norm, and pixel shift technology and medium format stuff churns out 100mp plus files. I don't think 16gb will be sufficient for very longThe memory usage is down to the OS and the applications rather than the CPU.
In principle with multiple GB of RAM then modern OS variants should really have converged to the point where the OS shouldn't make much difference any more - but IMO for whatever reason Windows remains a less happy place to be as far as memory is concerned when compare with alternatives.
However once you start running an application such as Lightroom or Photoshop its requirements should completely dominate the characteristics of the underlying OS.
I ordered a macmini M1 yesterday but after reading a lot more up on it ive cancelled and waiting to see what the new Imacs are like,i still love my mid 2011 27 imac,prefer the reflective screens even lolIts been 7 years so far so I'm not one for quick decisions on things like this. I could probably go on longer for a while yet. I've been thinking of upgrading for the last two years! Heck, only today I've moved from ADSL broadband to fibre broadband (a decision I've been thinking of doing for at least 3 years!.Can't believe I've waited this long, but it took it to be nearly unusable before we made the decision (we only have a single option for fibre which didn't help). If only the iMac failed it would be so much easier if the decision was made for me!
prefer the reflective screens even
to be honest, always loved this screen and worried about buying a monitor and discovering i was better off with the mac one even though the machine is getting long in the tooth,ie lots of apps dont work on High Sierra,however with Afinity photo and one photo at a time i can happily amuse myself.Probably a great many monitors at a reasonable price perhaps will display better but I think I will probably play safe and go for another Imac. what do you use?semi-gloss appears to be the best compromise. Once you get a good one you will not want to go back.
what do you use?
is that with a mac mini M1?Acer BM320 / 32" 4K. It is no longer current and there are likely better ones out there. With this one I was pleasantly surprised how much better the soft semi-gloss coating is compared to the traditional matt on most IPS screens.
is that with a mac mini M1?