Our developers have identified a change within MacOS that started in Big Sur and has been carried to Monterey – this was a security change in Apple’s system that affects how ‘just in time’ (JIT runtime) apps are checked, and Affinity currently uses the JIT runtime method. I got a very quick (and more importantly encouraging) response back from Dan at Serif: I ran some test with similar results on Affinity Photo and sent them to Serif, the makers of the Affinity products, asking them what the heck is going on. It’s better than the nearly 39 seconds it took on my Intel, but still, that’s way too long. Here’s the bad news: on the M1 Max Affinity Designer still took nearly 19 seconds to launch! That is a LOT of dock bounces. It’s possible all of the Office 365 apps are slow but I only install Excel so I can’t speak definitively on that.Īffinity Designer launches 116% faster on the M1 Max than it did on the Intel, which matches pretty close to the 114% improvement in video transcoding observation. The race for the slowest app to launch on my computers is between all of the Affinity products (Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher) and Excel. If your RAM needs are because you run high-end applications with giant files, then this observation has no bearing on your decision. If you’re trying to choose a configuration and you’re waffling between RAM sizes, and the reason you want more RAM is because you like to keep a lot of apps running concurrently, maybe you don’t need as much RAM if you can quit and reopen them super fast. I always blamed my giant Photos library (86,260 as of last count) for why Photos took so long to launch but on the M1 Max, it opens so fast that I don’t mind quitting and reopening it. For the most part, they weren’t slow before, but because they launch so quickly now, I am more likely to quit and reopen them than I am to just leave everything running. If time is money for you, that’s an impressive number.Ī nice little surprise is how fast apps launch. If my cipherin’ is correct, that means the M1 Max was 114% faster than the Intel, or slightly more than twice as fast as the Intel. The Intel machine took just under 19 minutes to export the file, and the M1 Max took a little under 9 minutes. The native ScreenFlow file was just under a TB and I exported it to an mp4. The most impressive test was transcoding my latest video tutorial for ScreenCastsOnline. My new machine is a 2021 M1 Max 14” with a 10-core CPU and 32-core GPU and 64GB of RAM. My baseline machine is a 2019 16” Intel quad-core i9 with 64GB of RAM, so no slouch on its own. I finally got a chance to do a couple of speed tests.
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