



With this release, Adobe says that Lightroom is now available across all the major desktop (Mac, Win, Intel, ARM), mobile (iOS, Android), and web () platforms. And, yes it plans to continue to invest in and improve Lightroom on Intel-based systems, too, of course.

Adobe notes that it will continue to optimize for WOA and M1 in subsequent releases. That said, there’s still work to be done. Instead, it looks like Lightroom is generally available on both ARM-based platforms. The arrival of Adobe Lightroom on M1 Macs and WOA follows last month’s release of a Photoshop Beta on these platforms. “We rebuilt Lightroom to take advantage of the newest performance and power efficiency benefits of the Apple M1 and Qualcomm Snapdragon (for Windows 10) processors.” “The latest version of Adobe Lightroom is now a native app for both Apple M1 and Windows Arm platforms,” Adobe’s Sharad Mangalick announced. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.Adobe announced today that it has released Lightroom as a native app on M1-based Macs and Windows 10 on ARM (WOA). Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. On top of that you get support for more monitors, and 50 more. Also, Lightroom now uses the GPU for a lot of functions, including exports, and all of those extra GPU cores on the Ultra will help you out a lot as will the fact the memory bandwidth is doubled in speed. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. UPDATED: Lightroom Benchmarking: M2 and M1 Macs and PCs ptakeuchi. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. Lightroom Classic, Illustrator, and InDesign have all been updated for the M1 processor, and Adobe says that you can expect average performance boosts of up to 80 percent across the suite. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. Lightroom is the first of Adobe’s hugely popular apps to be optimized for Apple’s M1 silicon. Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more.
