The extra memory is a $400 addition, but I judged it worthwhile to accommodate photo and video editing plus my usual burden of a few dozen browser tabs. My photography labor of loveįor the record, my new MacBook Pro sports 32GB of memory, a midrange configuration for the 16-inch models and twice what's in my two-year-old MacBook Pro using a six-core Intel Core i7 processor.

The chips are made for Apple by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. The chips balance power with battery life by combining high-speed and high-efficiency cores, resulting in more hours of use per charge. The water's fine.Īmong the advantages the M1 Max and its similar but less graphically powerful M1 Pro sibling deliver: built-in circuitry for artificial intelligence tasks, a unified memory architecture, and a beefy built-in graphics processing unit. If you're leery about the switch, come on in. The chips are beefier cousins to the A-series chips in Apple's iPhones and iPads. Apple is halfway through a two-year process of replacing Intel processors with its own M-series designs. The improvements, validated with by testing some common Lightroom chores that caused my older Intel-powered Mac to crawl, are thanks to Apple's new chip and Adobe optimization to take advantage of it.

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