But I'll do the "off-topic" tags so folks don't have to look at it if they don't want. Sorry, didn't mean to turn this into an Affinity infomercial. If I can step away from my beloved Illustrator after 25 years of exclusive, full-time use, I imagine many others can too (if their situations allow mine did). You own them, and they have iPad versions of these titles as well. I can speak for Publisher (I'll own it eventually, just because I'm so happy with the other two and I occasionally have to do a simple four-page newsletter or brochure).Īnd before I discovered the Affinity stuff, I spent a solid 4-6 years using, and liking, Pixelmator (I ditched Photoshop years before I did Illustrator).Īlso, the Affinity stuff is all Big Sure and M1 ready/compatible. I don't know the current situation, but I do know that the Affinity titles all had 30-day trial downloads (which is what convinced me to make the jump a year or so ago).ĮDIT: the free trials are still available.go to the "buy now" button and you get the option to download/install a free trial there.Īffinity does offer a publishing/layout title called Publisher, so they're kinda covering that Illustrator/Photoshop/InDesign suite from Adobe. OS 10.9 - 12 Mac with Apple M1/M1 Pro/M1 Max chip or Intel processor Minimum 4GB RAM Up to 2.8 GB hard drive space Minimum 1280x768 display Supports regular, retina, and expanded gamut DCI-P3 displays Windows. But if you're in a similar boat, give them a shot. Affinity Publisher is an excellently priced and well formed piece of software that delivers on all fronts. I do realize I may be in a rare (lucky) situation where I can make such a move. Naturally, they export to all the formats you'd expect. After a year or so, I find I'm just as comfortable and speedy and have "re-trained" myself (well before now, BTW) to "unlearn" all I knew before and embrace the new.įor the record, I mostly do standalone artwork that I hand off to others, so my collaboration/compatibility concerns are near-zero.but it's yet to have raised any issues, me no longer being on the "industry standard" titles. Yes, you have to re-learn some things, but I'm finding that I prefer a lot of those changes to what I was used to in the Adobe stuff for two decades. But you own them, they're very nimble and load fast. Off-topic (click to toggle): You buy them outright - I got both for $25 because Affinity put them on sale, half off, a year or so ago and I jumped on it like a rabbit. So that does give Apple some gains, but it doesn't come close to explaining the discrepancy. *) to be fair, the SQ2 is still 7nm, not 5nm. The explanation I come away with is they're not trying. Qualcomm's phone CPUs are actually about 10% faster, which is not nothing, and they have to accomplish that with less thermal headroom, so I'm not sure why they do so poorly on the tablet CPU front. On top of that, Apple's core scheduler seems to be more efficient (or their use of efficiency cores in addition to performance ones is more aggressive), as the factor is even higher for multiple cores, at about 2.4. Even Intel is moving towards them, so listing cores as a singular integer number of "8 cores" just doesn't make sense any more.)Ĭore by core, the M1 is roughly 2.1 times as fast: it scores around in single-core on Geekbench, whereas the SQ2 scores around 800. (Side note: I hope some future Geekbench update will take these heterogenous setups into account. (edit) Oh, and both use TSMC as the manufacturer*. The M1 and SQ2 are actually amusingly simple to compare: they draw similar amounts of power, they both run at roughly 3.2 GHz, and they're both a 4+4 core setup. I don't know if Microsoft messed up or Qualcomm did or both of them, but hopefully, all these M1 headlines "inspire" someone at Microsoft and/or Qualcomm to put the foot on the gas again. Windows is largely irrelevant in that comparison. What's being "smashed" is the utterly terrible Qualcomm SQ2 they put in the Surface Pro X. That headline is… well… technically accurate but kind of silly. Users adopting macOS Big Sur will notice some tweaks to the UI and app icons to match the new styling of macOS Big Sur.Apple is crushing itself with the M1, and now they're crushing Windows on ARM, and by no small margin. It just makes our apps run faster, smoother and feel more responsive than ever before.”Įxisting users of Affinity apps on macOS can download Affinity 1.8.6 for free. “We have seen speed increases of over 3x faster running on the new MacBook Air. It also enables many more elements like adjustment layers and live filters to be maintained before performance suffers - allowing for a more non-destructive workflow, even on the most complex of documents. Mac customers with M1 can expect a more responsive user experience with respect to painting, pixel editing, filter effects, document rendering and more. “In fact, ever since developing for iPad, we’d always hoped that chips with this architecture would eventually come to Mac, so we’re very excited that day is finally here.” “Our fully-featured iPad apps already take advantage of very similar architecture on the A-series chips, so it actually only took us a day to port our Mac version to run natively on M1,” adds Hewson.
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