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It’s not verbatim but that’s the jist. Meanwhile a ton of people are still having issues including me. And they suggested I troubleshoot the connection, completely ignoring what I told them about being away from home on vacation.

I plan to buy a MacBook this weekend but I’m torn between the MacBook Air 15” M5 24gb & the 16” M5 Pro 48gb. I’m historically a PC user so Macs are somewhat foreign to me and I could use some help.

Photography is a new hobby and my wife and I are really getting into it. Mostly wildlife/bird photography, and often in low light conditions so heavy AI denoising with DxO is often needed. The camera is a Nikon Z8 which shoots in 45mp resolution.

Editing with DxO Photolab will be the most resource-hungry activity we do on the machine, and there won’t be much multitasking. Each editing session will probably last up to a couple of hours and somewhere between 10-20 photos. What’s most important to me is snappy responsiveness during editing workflow. Export speed is less important.

I’d been leaning MB Pro, but today the Apple Store guy seemed convinced the MB Air would perform just as good as the MB Pro for this, or at least that I wouldn’t notice a difference.

The price difference is $1,300, so pretty substantial if it’s true that the Air will be plenty snappy for my use case. But I also don’t want to buy not enough laptop and then have buyer’s remorse. Anyone have any performance experience with DxO Photolab and MacBook Air M5 24gb?

I’ll likely be purchasing a new laptop within the next few months and its primary purpose will be to edit photos. I have a Nikon Z8 which shoots in 45mp, and I use DxO Photolab. I am more concerned with speed of rendering live preview while editing than I am with export speed.

I’m more familiar with Windows than macOS, and I understand that you can get better specs for your money on a PC, but I’m also not a big fan of the bloatware that tends to come with Windows laptops which eats into the availability of system resources.

My budget is probably ~$2k USD & I’m not against buying second hand. If I go PC I’d probably lean Lenovo 16” Yoga Pro 9i. I’m not sure which MacBook I’d need if I went that route because I’ve only just begun to consider it.

Could anyone share their relevant experience photo editing with DxO Photolab on Mac and PC?