I'll try again to edit some pictures later to see if it's faster now. Yesterday I've updated to the latest backup and sync from Google I guess that one was also a big cpu and ram eater. It usually uses 13/14gb of ram and the swap is usually at 3/4gb. Mostly I don't use LR anymore but it's installed and I can ran a test this evening (German time) and could give some feedback. I could test the performance with my MBP 2017 13'' (i7, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD) and my Sony a7ii RAW files. How is your RAM usage? If it's very high and paging is needed then the slowdowns would be easy to understand. I've tried to follow some guide to get better performance changing settings and it's better but still not very good :-/ Same with Photoshop is laggy and not very smooth. The monitor says Lightroom consumes too much CPU like more than 200% sometimes. I use Lightroom classic CC and I edit compressed raw files from the Fuji Xpro2 which I convert to DNG during the import. it's a powerful machine and yet I get the waiting spinner too often. While you are editing check the acitivity monitor who is consuming the power. For the performance improvements of 15'' you don't carry much more weight with you.īesides: Which version of LR/PS are you using and which camera (asking for RAW + MP size).

Your 2015er 13 MBP weights nearly 1,6 kg - the new 2017 13'' weights around 200g less, the 15'' around 200g more. Maybe I'll be better off with a 15inch but I travel a lot and really don't want to bring around an heavy laptop. I've read the benchmarks and I've also read something like these articles: Hi Adam2 I'm on High Sierra I've updated a couple of weeks ago and I've noticed some improvements. Yes a 2017 will run faster and if you check out geekbench it will give you and idea as to the relative performance increase: Are you in Yosemite, Sierra, High Sierra? Did someone upgrade from a similar model?įascinating as I have the same setup. I'd eventually buy the 512gb ssd with 16gb version. Do you think that upgrading to a 13 inch 2017 macbook pro will be better? I've read that the new processors are faster. Unfortunately I'm stuck with Apple cause I develop ios apps. It's not very fast and I can't run Lightroom and Photoshop together without experiencing serious performance issues. I own a 13 inch MacBook pro 2015 with 512gb ssd and 16gb of ram and honestly I kind of hate it.

2015 macbook pro 13 2.7 geekbench