14” 2021 MacBook Pro with M1 Max with 10/24/16 for use with Lightroom, Photoshop and Davinci Resolve

[kgphotos]

Question- How fast would the fans come on using Lightroom, Photoshop and Resolve while hooked up to an 27” Ezio display? I am looking at the 14” Max 10/24/16. I don’t do a lot of heavy video work- just basic editing, 4 to 6 tracks at most. Most of my use is for Lightroom and PS.

I am learning towards the 14” as it’s portable and since it’s going to be hooked up to a 27” display. Or should I go to the 16”?

 

[metapunk2077fail]

I have a 16 Max and use similar apps and display. I stress tested them all and couldn't hear the fans. I could only hear the fans when I did a few cycles of Luxmark benchmark. Even then the fans were nothing like an x86 based machine.

 

[kgphotos]

I have a 16 Max and use similar apps and display. I stress tested them all and couldn't hear the fans. I could only hear the fans when I did a few cycles of Luxmark benchmark. Even then the fans were nothing like an x86 based machine.

Hi. So I should be good with the 14”? Does your 16” get hot? New to these chips… coming from Intel and can’t wait to ditch it.

 

[haruhiko]

Question- How fast would the fans come on using Lightroom, Photoshop and Resolve while hooked up to an 27” Ezio display? I am looking at the 14” Max 10/24/16. I don’t do a lot of heavy video work- just basic editing, 4 to 6 tracks at most. Most of my use is for Lightroom and PS.

I am learning towards the 14” as it’s portable and since it’s going to be hooked up to a 27” display. Or should I go to the 16”?

Hmmm.. for basic editing, does it really need the Max chip? Or is it better to upgrade the RAM?

 

[kgphotos]

I’m getting 32gigs of RAM. I think 64 would be too much. I currently have 16 in my iMac.

 

[metapunk2077fail]

Hi. So I should be good with the 14”? Does your 16” get hot? New to these chips… coming from Intel and can’t wait to ditch it.

14 is more than sufficient. I got the 16 because my eyes are getting old and sometimes I want to work without external display.

The 16 doesn't get hot at all. Barely lukewarm. I suffered the days of hot PowerPC chips and hot Intel chips and we finally have what we have all been waiting for. Workstation power in a cool quiet laptop.

 

[kgphotos]

14 is more than sufficient. I got the 16 because my eyes are getting old and sometimes I want to work without external display.

The 16 doesn't get hot at all. Barely lukewarm.

Wow… That’s great! Thank you for letting me know.?