
One is that many Mac owners use MacBooks with more powerful Intel Core i7 chips employing six or eight processing cores that would put up a better fight against the M1 Macs. With Illustrator, the advantage was 65%, and for Photoshop, it was 89%.īenchmark tests require a lot of caveats.

Third-party test results by Pfeiffer Consulting show Apple's 13-inch M1-based MacBook Pro outpaces the same-size Intel-based model using a quad-core Intel Core i5 processor on many tasks. Faster than an Intel i5-based MacBook Pro

Its Premiere Pro video editing software for M1 Macs is available as a public beta test version. The company also said on Tuesday that it would roll out M1-native versions of its Illustrator design software and InDesign layout software. Lightroom isn't the only Adobe software transitioning to the M1 environment. Adobe released M1-native Lightroom in December and Photoshop followed in March.

Lightroom comes in two versions: Lightroom, which stores your photo catalog in the cloud, and Lightroom Classic, which adds many advanced features and stores photos on your computer. Photoshop is Adobe's top product, but Lightroom is widely used by photographers to edit and catalog their photos.
