Managing assets in Catalogs and Albums is 50% quicker. Importing photos with the new Advanced Importer is up to twice as fast. To the end-user, a key advantage of redesigned software is that Capture One runs very quickly on M1 machines. This approach, while intensive, offers numerous benefits. Capture One went back to the drawing board and rearchitected its software from the ground up. Getting Capture One 21 running natively on the Apple M1 chip was no easy feat. A new Capture One 21 update, available today, brings native Apple M1 support to the popular photo editing application. Capture One's impressive R&D team has just finished tackling this issue. In other cases, it's an incredibly complicated process. In some cases, it's relatively straightforward to port software from Intel to Apple Silicon. It's a significant departure from the Intel architecture that has powered Apple's computers - and still powers some of Apple's computers - for years.
Apple's M1 chip, which powers models in nearly all of Apple's notebook and desktop lineup, plus recent iPad Pro models, is a powerful piece of silicon.
