Spotted by Wccftech, this behavior is interesting because the image editing software is so CPU-intensive that anyone would assume it needed the performance cores to run. This was certainly the case for the M3 MacBook Air, which Yuryev shows using all four performance and all four efficiency cores to get the work done.

Apple’s latest iterative update to the MacBook Air gets better with the M4 chip, even though it doesn’t spark joy with any innovation.