![]() So the base air is only slightly lower (a few dollars) than a base 11" Pro. ![]() ![]() So while I have found both for sale, the current price of the Air v4 is substantially inflated, while the 2020 Pro is only somewhat inflated. This might not even be noticeable to some users, but for a pro artist who's sensitive to lag, could be a very significant thing.ĥ) Specific to my situation: Indonesia, where my collaborator is based, has terrible Apple infrastructure: no first-party stores, high import duties, and it tends to be embarrassingly difficult to get new Apple hardware (there are still stores linked direct from Apple as authorized resellers that only stock the 2nd generation Pro!). I don't know how well CSP will handle a 2-page-spread with many, many layers in 4GB-might be fine-but 6GB will unquestionably give it more overhead, especially if OS RAM needs increase in the future.Ĥ) The "sketching is somewhat smoother in the Pro" doesn't fully capture the difference-if Apple's own statements are to be believed, and some real-world tests on YouTube bear this out, there is a significantly lower amount of lag when drawing on the Pro. So it will depend on use case, but the Pro may have a non-trivial advantage in GPU performance.Īgain, I don't know how much CSP relies on the GPU, but it seems like that probably gives the Pro an edge for this particular use case.ģ) Working with large, multi-layered image files, the RAM difference may be more than academic. Things I've been considering that aren't laid out in this article:ġ) If you're doing single-core work, the Air is unquestionably much faster, but in multi-core the Pro does generally come out ahead, so for certain workloads it could tip the balance from a significant advantage for the Air to a slight advantage for the Pro.įor my personal case, I'm guessing that Clip Studio is more heavily single core than multi-core, but I'm not certain about that.Ģ) Based on those more granular Bare Feats benchmarks, the Pro ranges from slightly slower to a full 40% faster than the Air, depending on test.
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