This is such a disappointment from both companies. The two systems compared were configured as follows: Apple M1: 13 inch M1 MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM, 2TB SSD Intel: 13 inch Intel Core i5 MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM, 2TB SSD As. even with a new chip!Īs a last resort, I'll probably just return the Macbook Pro for an even swap of the same machine with the Intel chip. Most professionals are 'time-crunched' these days (at least we are) and don't have the time to trouble shoot software/hardware that, frankly, should be working right out of the box. It reminds me of the old days with Windows 'blue screen of death' and having to figure out how to load drivers and dll libraries, etc. They've had enough time to figure this out without causing their professional base this kind of nightmare. Even with an M1 chip this should be totally plug 'n play. Both Apple and Adobe are huge public companies with unlimited resources.

I will take your suggestion and try Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner tool as a final attempt. Illustrator can't get beyond 'Initializing plug-ins'. Photoshop stops when attempting to load 'Halide Bottlenecks' extension. Both get hung-up when attempting to load. The Intel-based systems had 2.0 GHz quad-core CPUs and 16GB on onboard memory. The M1 systems had the Apple M1 chipset with 8-core CPUs and GPUs and 16GB of Unified Memory. Once again, InDesign and Acrobat loaded just fine. The Pfeiffer Report compared the Premiere Pro Beta on 13 MacBook Pros with 2TB SSD hard drives. I had already run 'uninstall' for all four apps that I use (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat and InDesign). So, I finally found a script to manually download Rosetta2 using Terminal.

Both laptops had 16GB of RAM and were hooked up to an Apple Pro Display XDR. but, no dialog box appears upon launching any of the apps. The benchmarks were run on 13-inch MacBook Pro laptops, one with an M1 processor and the other with an Intel Core i5.

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