I am considering of buying a M2 Mac mini base model which is 8GB/256GB for photo editing and lot of sources say that it won't be good enough. I do not edit large files for now and even if I had it's very rare. I'm currently using a Windows Pc and it's getting slow when I started to using that. I just want to edit photos and that's the main reason, and I usually don't work with large files. What should I do?
This is even below bare minimum, simply not workable.
With Apple silicon, the graphics processor (GPU) uses shared system memory. And the GPU will use a lot! There will only be 2 or 3 GB left for Photoshop after the OS, the GPU, and other processes have taken theirs. That's not even enough to open Photoshop, let alone run it.
You might get it to work with 16 GB, but 32 should really be considered minimum.
And a 256 GB system drive will fill up faster than you can say "scratch disk". Don't even think about it. 1 TB minimum, 2 TB better.
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