It looks to me like they ought to at least run, although I don’t know how the Intel Core M CPU compares to the usual i5/i7 range. The guy in the Apple store shook his head and said he’d be surprised if they even loaded, and they’d run terribly, so costing himself a sale.
A bit of Googling doesn’t find anything about Adobe apps on this particular Macbook, only the older Air which has an i5 or i7 CPU. Has anyone actually tried this?
Either the guy at the Apple Store misunderstood you, or he was seriously high. I use Adobe Creative Cloud on an early 2009 MacBook and it all runs perfectly fine. No reason it wouldn’t on that system.
The whole thing sounds just odd. As if they guy in the store had not had even the most basic of training about Macs, and certainly not the new one.
The Core M is a pretty spiffy beast. It comes in a range of variants, but is a very modern processor. Its big trick is low power consumption - getting about three times the bang for the joule as the i7. It is otherwise very close to the similar modern i5/i7 processors in capability, giving away just a little (enough that unless you measured it you probably wouldn’t actually notice.)
Compared to a MacBook Pro with a separate graphics chip, it will be slower with Creative Suite for those operations where the GPU assist, or serious multi-processor codes, can bite - but for most things it will be not a lot different.
Sure, but that’s got a real i5 or i7 CPU in it. I wasn’t sure how cut-down the M is compared to those, and halving the clock speed seemed to indicate there were some drastic compromises necessary to get everything in that razor-thin form factor.
That’s just the kind of thing I needed to know, thanks. Is the much lower clock speed an issue though?
It was just on this one Macbook model, he was sure it would work fine on the Air or Pro.
