Apple’s new MacBook Air (M4) appears to only use efficiency cores in Adobe Lightroom Classic
All performance cores are inactive during testing
It’s unclear whether this is a bug or something Apple intended
It’s no secret that Apple’s new 13-inch MacBook Air provides fantastic performance for consumers thanks to its powerful M4 chip, starting at $999 / £999 / AU$1,699 – but there are reports that its performance while using a photo editing program is being throttled, though perhaps for a good reason.
Spotted by Vadim Yuryev (from a popular channel Max Tech on YouTube), the MacBook Air (M4) seems to only use all six of its efficiency cores instead of performance cores in Adobe Lightroom Classic (a photo editing program), as highlighted by Wccftech. This is a CPU-intensive application that (hypothetically) should require the use of performance cores to maximize productivity – but Yuryev implies that there’s a positive aspect despite all four performance cores being inactive.
