I recently ran into the same set of decisions, having decided that my
2012 MBP was too decrepit to handle things as well as it used to, and I
needed something for travel and location work that could handle some
culling and light editing until I could get the files back home to my
workhorse computer.
Guess I should point out that I have never particularly liked editing
photos on a laptop, unless it was at home and hooked up to decent
monitors, so I dragged my feet for quite some time on the decision
because the home setup was already sorted, my venerable 2009 Cheese
Grater Mac Pro moved to a support role for an M1 Max Mac Studio, running
two color matched 24" monitors for the heavy lifting and a third display
for email, browsing, etc.
So last week I grabbed up an M2 iPad Pro for the road work. It has
enough screen space for such, and I can get some of the stuff done with
the Apple Pencil before I get back home to my tablet and pen and more
serious work.
to your questions:
like Godders said, RAM is handled differently on the new rigs, so the
answer isn't always more like it used to be, but still more than 8GB
would be better.
M2 over M1 is "it depends."
I never do serious photo work without calibrated monitors, and though
laptop screens have gotten better regarding color and holding a
calibration, I still have a prejudice against them, so I'd look into
interfacing whatever you get with either your iMac screen or finding
another monitor to hook up. And yes, a Spyder or other tool.
Figure out which ports you need.
See above regarding monitors.
I haven't used a mouse in ages, since I got a Wacom tablet. My ancient
Apple Wireless keyboard still works.
On 3/6/23 9:13 AM, David J Brooks wrote:
Good day all
It looks like i;ll be getting some goven=rnmetn money soon and am thinking
of upgrading, but keeping, my 2010 iMac 21,5" desktop. It works well enough
but because i cant upgrade the OS to stay current and also can't upgrade
some programs i use and like, like PS and Lightroom, i'm considering
making a move to a macbook pro, either the 13
" or the 14" M1 or M2 chip
Just looking for comments good or bad from those that are using said
machine(s) for LR and PS. -Is the screen big enough, 13" or 14"
-is 8gig ram enough
-is M2 better over M1 chip
-screen colour ie do you need a spyder wset up
-battery life
-amount of ports and a sd card slot
-could my imac be used as an extended monitor?
-can i use my keyboard and magic mouse, i don't like track pads
If i think of anything else i;; add it.
We have a company not far that sells and services nothing but Macs so i'll
probably deal with them
Dave
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