I would concur that it is very likely that within half a year, you will not only see new MacBook Pro models coming out based on ARM chip technology with larger screens (13' for graphic arts work? You must be kidding – it is difficult enough to see what I need with a ThinkPad P17 17.3' screen!) and more memory (16 gigabytes is really minimal for graphic arts use especially with InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, who knows what other desktop applications running concurrently) options.

There are not yet such versions for Acrobat and certainly not for the Acrobat plug-ins that many of us use. Absolutely nuts.įWIW, there are beta test versions of ARM-native Illustrator and InDesign available from Adobe. Geekbench scores were 1648 for single core, and 6885 for multi core. It defies everything I thought was possible for laptops/desktop. Four hours straight using InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, downloading files, and really just torture testing this thing and I only managed to take 25% of the battery life.after four hours! It doesn't even have a fan.

I cannot imagine how much more powerful the iMacs and Mac Pros will be with Apple Silicon. I would highly suggest you ditch Intel and AMD as soon as you can for your Apple products. This little 'tablet with a keyboard' is competing head-to-head in terms of performance with $2,500+ PCs and iMacs. That being said, I needed a new personal laptop so I ordered on Sunday a Macbook Air with 8 gb of memory and the new M1 processor/SOC. But I am comfortable using the Macs we have at our shop, and usually have to do 'Mac tech support' for the other employees. I preordered the HTC Vive, which was the highest end VR kit at the time. I have also had Android phones for the last 10 years, and appreciate cutting edge software and hardware. I've custom built computers, bought straight from Dell and everything in between.

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