Macbook pro 2023 M2 for latest illustrator and photoshop

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March 7, 2025
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Hi

I'm planning on buying a refurbished macbook pro 2023 M2 for the sole purpose of using adobe illustrator and photoshop. I want to use it for design projects. Will the latest version of illustrator and photoshop work on this model, and if not what should I buy instead?

Thanks

Correct answer Monika Gause

You'd better have 32 GB.

I have an M1 Macbook with 32 GB. With Illustrator that is doing well, for Photoshop I would often want to have more (and I'm not even doing heavy Photoshop lifting).

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Bobby Henderson

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How much RAM does the MacBook Pro have? I think 16GB is about the bare minimum for the current version of Illustrator. Hopefully the MacBook has at least that much, if not (preferably) more.

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Kerri0D4CAuthor

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16GB RAM

Is that enough for both illustrator and photoshop? I have photoshop on my super old mac and that has only 8GB.

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Bobby Henderson

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16GB is barely enough, IMHO. With that amount of RAM if I had the current versions of Illustrator and Photoshop running at the same time I probably wouldn't be doing something very intensive or have multiple documents open. MacOSX does a pretty decent job with memory management though. My computers are Windows-based; I have them loaded with 64GB of RAM.

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