In 2019 I treated myself to a new high end MacBook Pro 16. 32Gb of RAM and 1TB of storage. I actually like the Touch Bar and don’t know why people hated it. Its genuinely useful.
As Adobe keeps updating, tethering and batch processing is getting slower and slower. With the new release of the M4 MacBook Pro I have decided to take the leap. I’ll be getting the 14 inch model to save money, I have an external monitor so a 14 inch screen will work.
This will be my first Mac silicon laptop so I am hoping for a big increase in performance. So what did I pick, it’s the 14 inch model like I said, and I went for the Pro model of the CPU with 48 Gb of RAM, and again a 1 TB disk, which is ample for working away as I have my Lightroom catalogue and working files on an external disk plus a NAS.
My desktop is currently a now 10 year old Mac Pro and this months Lightroom update is not compatible so that will be moved to music server and ripping duties, So this new laptop will be my main machine. I’ll try and keep it very photography focused and not put any crap on it as I still have my 16 inch laptop for every day light use.
