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November 17, 2022
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Older MacBook Air..

  • November 17, 2022
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Hey guys   I have spent so much time looking for an answear to this, any help would be great.

  I am new to Macs, I want to run light room on a desk top. I've been running it on my iPad and would like the other options that the desktop version offers.

  I'm a hobbyist photographer, maybe 20 to 30 photos a month lol mostly just landscapes but would like to be able to focus stack and stuff.

  I found in my area a early 2015 MacBook Air for almost nothing. 150.00

 It has i5

16 gig of memory ddr3

128 hard drive.

running Monterey 12.6

i would be running it to a external monitor.

  Can I run the latest Lightroom this?or even a older version.

as you can see, my work flow is next to nothing so it doesn't have to be lighting fast.

  Any help would be great

 

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Jao vdLCommunity Expert
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November 17, 2022

The biggest problem you will have is with the absolutely tiny internal SSD. That is barely enough to install the operaring system. You probably should buy a good size USB-based SSD - like 1TB. This machine prrobably has USB-3.0 ports so make sure you get one that fits. Put the catalog and images on it and you should be able to work. Will be pretty slow but should work.

TheDigitalDog
TheDigitalDog
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November 17, 2022

Minimum and recommended system requirements for Lightroom Classic

 

Processor Multicore Intel processor (2 GHz or faster with SSE 4.2 or later, and 64-bit support) or Apple Silicon processor
Operating system macOS Big Sur (version 11.0) or later
RAM 8 GB 16 GB or more
Hard disk space

4 GB of available hard-disk space; additional space is required for installation

Lightroom Classic will not install on case-sensitive file systems or removable flash storage devices
Monitor resolution 1024 x 768 display 1920 x 1080 display or greater
Graphics card
  • GPU with Metal support
  • 2GB of GPU memory
  • GPU with Metal support
  • 4 GB of GPU memory for 4k or greater displays
  • 8 GB of dedicated GPU memory or 16 GB of shared memory for full GPU acceleration
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