Help Spec-ing a new mac 4 PhotoLab 6

DxO PhotoLab macOS topics
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I’ve been doing some research and for anyone wondering what to buy you might find something useful.

From DxO website

  1. “…DxO DeepPrime leverages the native core ML software and the M1 hardware GPU, leading to great performance improvement compared to the latest equivalent MacBook or Mac Mini.”
  2. “DeepPRIME and DeepPRIME XD* is fully GPU optimized, on Windows as well as on macOS.”
  3. DxO says preferred set up is “apple silicon and 16mb of memory” but (from me) if one has other apps running when using PL6 more memory may have advantages
  4. DxO, PL6 and PL5.3 supports apple silicon natively, PL5.2 and below only support apple silicon through emulation.

YouTube channel ArtIsRight (he’s a professional photographer) is chock full of highly detailed tests on M1 Macs comparing memory, gpu, cpu and other parameters on photography related apps. Here is one on PL5 unfortunately before it was fully optimised for apple silicon. DXO PhotoLab & PureRAW M1 Pro & M1 Max MacBook Pro Benchmark - YouTube

M2 Thoughts & Configuration Advice on the new Mac mini M2, M2 Pro 14" & 16" MacBook Pro M2 Pro, M2 Max - YouTube

Mac Studio: lots of complaints about fan noise even at idle but others say theirs is totally quiet. No explanation.

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