While this is very common among free software programs, it does become frustrating having to close these at the most inopportune times.

However, because AVG is a free program, I experienced a lot of pop-up ads. Each function is represented by a large icon that glows red when it isn't set up and green when it's ready to use. This free antivirus program is super easy to install and use. This tool looks for outdated programs and drivers - where ransomware tends to sneak in - and gives suggestions on where to download a legitimate patch or updated version. While it doesn't have a lot of extras, this free Mac antivirus impressed me with including a vulnerability scanner. It quarantined the entire folder instead of waiting for each file to download.Įven when I allowed some threat to download completely, AVG was able to find them quickly. I was really impressed with how well AVG recognized the zipped test file as containing malware during the decompression process. This program stopped 100% of Mac threats and 95% of Windows threats during testing.

Though AVG Antivirus for Mac is free, it doesn't skip on security features. It did slow down with big graphics, though.Screenshots of dashboard (Image credit: Nicole Johnston/ AVG) Scrubbing through the timeline was great - I didn’t notice it drop a frame until 3.5 hours in of editing, which is very impressive. On the M1 Max with 32 GPU cores, there was no lag between hitting the spacebar and playing, and Premiere ran noticeably smoother than my iMac or the M1 Pro laptops. Overall, the editing experience was very similar to my regular work machine, a 27-inch iMac from 2019 with an eight-core Intel Core i9, 64GB of RAM, and a Radeon Pro 575x graphics card the M1 Pro machines were actually choppier during 2x timeline playback. It was about one second, as if the computer was thinking before it played. There was also a short but noticeable lag from hitting the spacebar to the timeline actually playing. It was minor, but after 20 seconds a frame or two would drop.

But to no surprise, when I added graphics and adjustment layers with color, Premiere started dropping frames. Premiere ran smoothly with 4K footage - on both the 14-inch and 16-inch M1 Pro machines, I could play back the timeline at full resolution at 2x speed.

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