The Apple M1 chip – is it the big computer story of the year? On the computer side, Apple’s new chips could be incredibly significant, by far the big computer story of the year for photographers – if they can replicate their results with low-power chips as they scale up. Apple has never built a high-power chip, and the fact that they have some extremely impressive … [Read more...]
Breaking (up) News – Apple moving away from Intel and the impact on photographers
We don’t know what new Macs are going to look like, so why not just look at a beautiful, if slightly cloudy, future? In what may, at first, seem like an unimportant piece of computer geekery, Apple announced on June 22, 2020 that they would transition the Mac from Intel’s x86 processor lineup to custom chips they are calling Apple Silicon. This is huge news for the many … [Read more...]
A Profusion of Options – Computing for Serious Photography.
Serious photo editing is now possible on a laptop – lousy iPhone shot of the 16” MacBook Pro editing an image in DxO while managing the catalog in Lightroom (it was also running Word, Safari, Mail and Acrobat at the time.). At the beginning of 2019, there was very serious concern about Apple’s continued commitment to photographers’ needs, and Intel was doing their … [Read more...]
An iMac Pro in a backpack! Two weeks with the 16” MacBook Pro
What fits in a small backpack, yet edits photos like a desktop workstation? A 16” MacBook Pro. Introduction: An Apple beauty shot of the new MacBook Pro The long-term review MacBook Pro has been here for two weeks now, and I have enough experience with it, both in heavy photographic workloads and in general use (e-mail, Safari and a lot of writing) to form some … [Read more...]
Macs for Photography?
Apple’s brand-new 16” MacBook Pro – it’s probably a great photographic workstation, but is it the only choice? For the more involved photographer (like most of the readership of The Luminous Landscape), the big technology companies are not really keeping pace with what we need. Some of us photograph seriously with phones as a secondary camera, many of us do … [Read more...]
