I would need to move the sliders very, very slowly to allow Lightroom to render the changes I was making. My old iMac was very poor in this regard. You will have to subscribe to the Photography Plan to use Lightroom Classic which is the direct upgrade to Lightroom 6. What’s important to me is slider performance. This is my last version of Mac: mac OS Ventura Version 13.2.1 Upvote Translate Report Bob Somrak LEGEND, Lr 6 has a 32 bit installer and will not install on Ventura. I don’t care if they take half as long or twice as long on an M1 Mac. I can walk away from the computer and get a cup of coffee while those operations take place.

But, I’m always looking for great performance.Īlmost all reviews of the M1 Macs I have read (or watched on YouTube) focus on import performance, export performance, HDR merge, and/or panoramic merge. However, this MBP has a much better discreet graphics card than the 2015 iMac, and thus better performance. This time I’m using a 2017 MBP, also with 16G memory.

When Adobe moved to the subscription payment plan, I immediately moved to other photo editing tools only to be disappointed and I came back to Lightroom Classic. I thought the performance was less than perfect. Several years ago I used Lightroom 6 on a late-2015 Retina iMac w/16G memory.

I too am considering the purchase of an M1 Mac.

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