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OtinG · 03-30-2022, 10:55 PM

My MacBook Air M1 with 16GB RAM and 1TB of storage arrived at 7pm this evening. It was very easy to set up, much easier than I remember the MacBook Pro 2014 being 7 years ago! iCloud really helped with that. Loving it so far. I finally got all the native settings like I want them, and I’m currently installing Adobe Creative Cloud. I won’t get much more than that done before bedtime.

It does seem blazingly fast! I’ll do some intensive Lightroom tasks tomorrow to compare with my MacBook Pro 2014. Yesterday I loaded 486 RAW photos into Lightroom on my MacBook Pro and timed several tasks. I will repeat that on my MacBook Air M1 tomorrow then post to results for comparison. I also ran Cinebench on both the MacBook Air M1 and MacBook Pro 2014, although I’m not convinced those readings are all that relevant for M1 machines. I’ll post the results. As I recall the M1 results were over twice as high as the older i7.

03-30-2022, 10:55 PM	#72
OtinG Old Gadget Guy Posts: 1,913 Karma: 6854865 Join Date: Jun 2018 Device: Oasis 3, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPad mini 6, iPad Air 2020, Alexa Devices	My MacBook Air M1 with 16GB RAM and 1TB of storage arrived at 7pm this evening. It was very easy to set up, much easier than I remember the MacBook Pro 2014 being 7 years ago! iCloud really helped with that. Loving it so far. I finally got all the native settings like I want them, and I’m currently installing Adobe Creative Cloud. I won’t get much more than that done before bedtime. It does seem blazingly fast! I’ll do some intensive Lightroom tasks tomorrow to compare with my MacBook Pro 2014. Yesterday I loaded 486 RAW photos into Lightroom on my MacBook Pro and timed several tasks. I will repeat that on my MacBook Air M1 tomorrow then post to results for comparison. I also ran Cinebench on both the MacBook Air M1 and MacBook Pro 2014, although I’m not convinced those readings are all that relevant for M1 machines. I’ll post the results. As I recall the M1 results were over twice as high as the older i7. Last edited by OtinG; 03-30-2022 at 10:57 PM.