Potential Subscriber looking for advice on compatibility of laptop

16 GB is the recommended minimal amount of RAM. In case you want to create huge files, use a lot of 3D and materials or many objects, transparency and patterns, it might not be enough to make Illustrator run as smooth as you'd like it to.

As for the graphic card, please check out the specifications: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/system-requirements.html

It will. the specifics will depend on the actual configuration, in particular with regards to your graphics driver vs. GPU accelerated display functions. It might be good to download the 7 day trial (don't input any payment info or it will auto-activate into a paid subscription after that period) to judge these things.

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