@michaelt77204655 wrote:
I am considering a Mac Mini with intel i7, 2 tb sad and 65 fab Ddr4 Ram.
Is there a reason you’re considering an Intel Core i7 Mac at a time when high performance Mac applications are getting the most benefit from the new M1 Apple Silicon processor? If a report just released is any indication, the version of Premiere Pro optimized for Apple Silicon would perform significantly better on an M1 Mac Mini, with lower power consumption, resulting in less heat and fan noise too, and much less thermal throttling, compared to the Intel version of Premiere Pro on a similarly configured Intel Mac Mini.
https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2021/06/08/premiere-pro-beta-on-apple-m1-the-results-are-in.html
The benchmarking report referred to in the Adobe document (Creative Cloud on Apple Silicon: Key Speed Measures), covering multiple applications including Premiere Pro and Photoshop, was commissioned by Adobe, so that should be kept in mind. But it is interesting to see that Adobe is choosing to showcase Apple M1 performance improvements over a similarly priced Intel configuration…more bang for the buck.
@michaelt77204655 wrote:
On the MacBook Pro Adobe eats through my battery like a Tasmanian Devil at lunch.
That’s probably going to happen with any Mac or Windows laptop. The “all-day” battery life in product specs is based on light duty workloads, video watching, and web browsing. If you start editing with a graphics or video application, you are now driving the CPU, GPU, and storage to their performance limits all at the same time, which requires a lot more power, so battery life will have to drop.
That said, the M1 Mac laptops are reported to have better battery life than Intel laptops, even under load, due to the higher performance per watt (same performance level uses less power) of the M1.
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