34.86GB are you kidding me....that's crazy!! Adobe should be ashamed. I wish Apple would bring back an M1 version of Aperture ?
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New MBP 16" M1 Max- Not impressed.
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I did some digging for you, there's a 3 year old post from a Mac user on Adobe's help forum for Lightroom Classic version 8.1:
Lightroom Classic 8.1: Using too much memory and crashing on iMac with 64GB of RAM
If you go digging around the Adobe help forum, you may try some of the suggested solutions and troubleshooting to resolve this issue, but I've screen-captured some points that may or may not help.
If you're intent on keeping your Macbook, I would try extensively troubleshooting the issue otherwise just return the laptop at the Apple Store and stick with your older system.
Lightroom Classic 8.1: Using too much memory and crashing on iMac with 64GB of RAM
If you go digging around the Adobe help forum, you may try some of the suggested solutions and troubleshooting to resolve this issue, but I've screen-captured some points that may or may not help.
If you're intent on keeping your Macbook, I would try extensively troubleshooting the issue otherwise just return the laptop at the Apple Store and stick with your older system.
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How's it rendering full screen previews? I went overkill and got an M1 Max because I wanted it to completely blitz through full screen RAW renders in Capture One Pro. I haven't received my 16" Max yet. All of these trouble reports are making me a little apprehensive about maxing out my purchase, but I know that it often takes a year for all of the weird kinks to get ironed out.
Aperture was great and I hung onto it for longer than I should have, but I'd highly recommend Capture One Pro to anyone who was an Aperture fan. The workflows are very configurable and you can set things up to feel like an updated version of Aperture.
Unless you have an old windows laptop for lightroom classic. Then 8 gb is more than enough LOL.
You mean they should change the thread to "I am not impressed with Adobe Lightroom on the Mac."
? Did you reply to the wrong guy? I’m not questioning the need for a portable workstation, just telling the guy who was comparing a laptop with a desktop workstation it’s silly to do that.
No, I think it’s fair. I mean, I could just as well judge a Windows PC by how well it runs FCP. I think it’d be unfair if the software they were attempting to run was not defined. I mean, if I needed to run Lightroom, I wouldn’t be impressed either.
Because the software being run WAS defined, that allows people to assess the information. “Gee, I really need Lightroom in my workflow, guess I’ll keep what I have it working on already,” or “Oh, I don’t need Lightroom, so I have nothing to worry about.”
I doubt it’d matter. Memory leaks will continue to leak until available memory is consumed.
what idiot needs 3 browsers open at one time? Another troll post!!
I was running a few pro apps and safari and was nearly hitting 32gb.
However I know I always sail close to it most of the time, so got the 64gb for the times I go above.
You should know your usage before buying a computer. Its not hard to work out.
But as an aside, for all those people I have read on these forums saying M takes less ram, I would suggest it is exactly the same as ever, when using creative apps. The file sizes stay the same.......
One last thing - my maxed max is the most insane computer I have ever used. I find it absoultely outstanding in everything I have thrown at it.
It competes on 95% of my work with my 16 core Ryzen desktop with a 3080ti gpu. This is amazing for a 14" laptop.
Still dont love the notch but all things considered, these MBP's are outstanding pro machines.
However I know I always sail close to it most of the time, so got the 64gb for the times I go above.
You should know your usage before buying a computer. Its not hard to work out.
But as an aside, for all those people I have read on these forums saying M takes less ram, I would suggest it is exactly the same as ever, when using creative apps. The file sizes stay the same.......
One last thing - my maxed max is the most insane computer I have ever used. I find it absoultely outstanding in everything I have thrown at it.
It competes on 95% of my work with my 16 core Ryzen desktop with a 3080ti gpu. This is amazing for a 14" laptop.
Still dont love the notch but all things considered, these MBP's are outstanding pro machines.
Ditto here. Wonder if the OP is using an old version - they've been pretty bad recently. The catalog 11 on ARM as a native app is finally snappy (well, better actually) like the old Fusion 8 on my 2017 MBP was.
I'd actually say it's more because it's now shared VRAM and system memory. If you had 16 before, get 32. 32 before, get 64.
It doesn’t matter what Mac you have. I‘ve seen fully spec’d out Mac Pro’s have high RAM usage with Lightroom. You could spend $699 or $50,000. Lightroom is not optimized.
Not necessary. It's so much more efficient now with the SSD swap, etc. But there are other threads on that.
If that's a position you easily hold, why'd you buy one in the first place?
I just don't even know how you couldn't be impressed with the 16"! its a beautiful machine in every way! I typically don't even like large computers but this one is so nice and powerful! what's not to like!?
Thats a pro with only 16 cores against a 3080. So that all seems about right even the 32 core M1 max would be just under that 3080. I think apple has lots of software bug fixes to make to smooth this thing out mine is not what I expected but I am a software engineer and really need Mac OS. Sadly most of these issues prob wont be fixed until the M2.
The LR catalog file is just a database that stores information about the photos. The photos themselves are stored separately, as are any previews the app has built.