M1 Mini vs M1 Max Photo editing

[Cloud9]

I presently have an M1 16gb mini. I am trying to understand if the M1 Max is actually going to be worth it. Lightroom performance is really all I care about.

I am seeing same level single core cpu performance on the M1 Max vs M1. I do no video editing. I know more cores will give me better import/export. But honestly I am not certain a M1 Max will give me that much more real world use benefit over my mini except for allowing for a third monitor which admittedly I would like. I don't mind waiting a little bit during import and export.

 

[JahBoolean]

I presently have an M1 16gb mini. I am trying to understand if the M1 Max is actually going to be worth it. Lightroom performance is really all I care about.

I am seeing same level single core cpu performance on the M1 Max vs M1. I do no video editing. I know more cores will give me better import/export. But honestly I am not certain a M1 Max will give me that much more real world use benefit over my mini except for allowing for a third monitor which admittedly I would like. I don't mind waiting a little bit during import and export.

Buy a few lenses for that price

 

[Cloud9]

I have more lenses then I need. I would love to 1/4 my import/export times but I dont think thats happening for a few years.

 

[darngooddesign]

I presently have an M1 16gb mini. I am trying to understand if the M1 Max is actually going to be worth it. Lightroom performance is really all I care about.

I am seeing same level single core cpu performance on the M1 Max vs M1. I do no video editing. I know more cores will give me better import/export. But honestly I am not certain a M1 Max will give me that much more real world use benefit over my mini except for allowing for a third monitor which admittedly I would like. I don't mind waiting a little bit during import and export.

If you find yourself frustrated by regularly waiting for your computer to complete a processing task, you need a faster computer, if not you don't.

 

[jz0309]

I presently have an M1 16gb mini. I am trying to understand if the M1 Max is actually going to be worth it. Lightroom performance is really all I care about.

I am seeing same level single core cpu performance on the M1 Max vs M1. I do no video editing. I know more cores will give me better import/export. But honestly I am not certain a M1 Max will give me that much more real world use benefit over my mini except for allowing for a third monitor which admittedly I would like. I don't mind waiting a little bit during import and export.

LR is a CPU hog on import, I see all cores at basically 99% on both my iMac and my M1 MBA, furthermore, on my M1 MBA the SSD read/write is about 2900MBps, what I recall from the intro the new MBPs go up to 7000, so, I think you’re gonna see significant improvement in LR import, but, I’d wait for real world reviews of LR performance and not go by benchmark results.