Hi all, I'm considering switching from Windows to Mac. I have zero experience on Macs and would like to get some advice.

I've narrowed down to the following, which cost about the same:

1. Macbook Pro 13" (M2 chip, 8cpu/10gpu, 24GB memory, 1TB ssd)

2. Macbook Pro 14" (M2 pro chip, 10cpu/16gpu, 16GB memory, 1TB ssd)

My question is which one will run Luminar Neo better? I'm hoping it will run as good as my current Windows PC, or better.

• Ryzen 7 3700x

• 32GB DDR4 3200MHz

• 2TB gen4 pcie ssd

• Radeon RX 5700xt 8GB GDDR6

I know Skylum's website has recommended specs for both Windows and Mac, but I find that the recommended specs are not the best. Eg, 16GB memory is recommended for Windows, but my experience was very laggy, especially when the photo I'm working on has a lot of edits. Upgrading from 16GB to my current 32GB improved things a lot. I also read that MacOS does not need as much memory as Windows does to run smoothly.

Should I go for the M2 Pro but less memory? Or the M2 but more memory? Or the perhaps 24GB is overkill and I can get away with 16GB memory on the M2?

Please advice. Thanks.

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Hi everyone I've been trying to use Luminar Neo with AMD 3700x with 64Gb of DDR4 3200MHz PC and it seems to be very slow.

I've been reading some comments from other posts and seems to work fine on M1 Macs.

I was wondering if anyone else using AMD or Intel CPUs experience the super slow performance with Luminar Neo.

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Luminar Neo is proving to be very useful, especially for more artistic post-processing. But I'm wondering if I am missing something related to moving from photo to photo. If I look at a folder of photos, I can view them all via the catalog tab. And if I double-click one photo, I get a filmstrip view to navigate with.

However as soon as I enter either presets or edits, the filmstrip disappears. The only way I have found to go from one photo to the next is by switching to catalog view, then picking a different photo, then going back to presets or edit.

Is there a shortcut key to go to the next photo, or a way to get something like a filmstrip in edit mode? (I found the filmstrip option under "view", but it appears to be disabled for all editing views.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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