Considering moving to Mac Mini M4from Windows 11
I have a great PC, it's 10 years old at this point but for Lightroom it should be fine.
Intel i7-8700k over clocked, 32GB DDR4 RAM, and a RTX 3090. My media is stored in a DAS system in Raid 0 (with cloud back up obviously).
Now my problem is...Lightroom is slow. I shoot weddings freelance so have to go through 5-8000 photos regularly but not enough to pay for Aftershoot. Images take 2-3 seconds to load (adds up to hours of lag time), the system lags and crashes regualry. RAM utilisation exceeds 16GB regualry and on export my swap file is nearly 50GB (I've limited the cache to 20GB to remedy this issue).
It just makes editing... Not fun.
My workflow now consists of me culling on my iPad via Lightroom Cloud folders and syncing back to my desktop. On ipad going through photos is near instant!
But I want a big screen to edit, so my question is for Mac Mini M4 owners is... Is it worth it? Do you find any significant issues with working through Lightroom on the Mac? Any hitches, crashes? Are images quick to render and export?
I plan on getting the base storage with a 32GB upgrade (is that even needed, I will do some da vinci resolve video work on it also).
Edit: okay so I've made the decision to go Apple, but follow up question. Should I get the Macbook Air for the portability?