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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Mac book pro / photography (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by MDMPoster@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Please help!! Hobby photograph —personal/travel/pics of my family/kids ! I have a lot of photos sitting on SD cards that need to be edited & organized.

I have an older Mac book pro and I’m looking to upgrade. What do you edit on? I’ve only used my iPad in the past with Lightroom cc, not Lightroom classic. However, I’m considering buying Topaz and understand a computer is needed to run. So now I’m considering switching to Lightroom classic — can anyone tell me the differences ? Do I have to ditch the iPad all together if I switch to Lightroom classic ? It would be nice to still use the iPad when I’m not using Topaz. have not yet tackled learning photoshop— future goal but don’t currently use it.

I love the simplicity of using the iPad but I’m open to using the laptop .

I’m really trying to figure out what I need to make things easy—looking to buy another MacBook!

I would also love recommendations on how/where you store your raw & edited images bc I have a lot of travel photos from over the years 😃

Here are my options (I can “afford” any of these but only if it’s worth the extra cost and not wasteful): my husband and I are thinking the 18 RAM is enough — thoughts ???

MacBook Pro 14 inch $1,999 M3 Pro chip (11 Core CPU 14 GPU) 18GB RAM 512 SSD

MacBook Pro 14 inch $2,399 M3 Pro chip (12 Core CPU 18 GPU) 18GB RAM 1TB SSD

MacBook Pro 16 inch $2,899 M3 Pro chip (12 Core CPU 18 GPU) 36GB RAM 512 SSD

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[–] SvnKswttr@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I switched from an Mid 2012 13" MBPro to the MacBook Air 2020 with the M1 two days ago.
The old MBPro took about 2 min for running a single image through topas. The MBAir does it's magic on the same images in less than 20sec. I got it directly from Apple as a refurbished model for less that 1k€

My 8GB RAM is sufficient.

Also using LR-Classing. Amazingly fast.

For the LR-CC-Version I cannot comment.

[–] chari_de_kita@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Base model M1 MBA with 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD? Been looking at that as a potential replacement for my 2013 13" MBP (work computer) to tide me over until the prices of the older MBPs drop so I can upgrade from my 2019 16" MBP.

[–] SvnKswttr@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, correct. Works as a charm :)
Only downsides: no integrated SD-Slot ans only one USB-C port.

But that's manageable