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Clayton Henry
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August 9, 2021
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How many GB of RAM do I need for Creative Cloud on a MacBookPro?

  • August 9, 2021
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I need to buy a laptop for an out of home graphics project and I would like advice on whether I need 16 or 32GB of RAM. I'm a MAC user at home, so want to stay with MAC and am looking at a pretty decked-out used 2019 16" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz i9 8-Core/32GB RAM/2TB Flash/5500M 8GB. On Ebay they are selling at around $2,600, but if I drop to 16gb and 1TB flash drive I can save almost a grand.

 

Thoughts? Thanks!

Clay

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Nancy OShea
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Community Expert
August 10, 2021

Minimum system requirements to run Creative Cloud + check requirements for each app.
- https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/system-requirements.html

Pay particular attention to Photoshop's new GPU requirements. See links below.
- https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/system-requirements.html
- https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/photoshop-cc-gpu-card-faq.html


Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Clayton Henry
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August 9, 2021

I forgot to add I use Creative Cloud and usually have Ps, Id, Ai and other programs like Quickbooks, MS Word, Excel, etc. open at the same time.

Peru Bob
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 9, 2021

Go with 32 GB.

John T Smith
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 9, 2021

>home graphics project

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/system-requirements.html

 

Premiere Pro requires the "most" computing power and ram... for everything else 16gig should be fine *

 

* I am on Windows and I build my own, so I really don't know much about a Mac