Apple boosts Mac Studio, MacBook Air with super-powered processors – Computerworld

The end result is performance, and if you use Excel, iMovie, Photoshop, or browse the web, Apple’s own figures promise that you’ll see significant speed enhancements, even if upgrading from the relatively recent and still highly performant M1 MacBook Air. Photo editing in Adobe Photoshop is up to twice as fast, for example.

All the existing features remain, so that means a durable aluminium unibody, Touch ID, Magic Keyboard, and Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 support. You’ll also find MagSafe, two Thunderbolt ports, and a 3.5mm headphone jack, along with a built-in three-mic array for better voice clarity when making calls.

What this means

What all these updates mean in real terms is that the high-end applications these Macs are designed to support will absolutely fly. Apple says you can expect up to 1.6x faster image processing in Adobe Photoshop on the M4 Max when compared to Mac Studio with M1 Max.