Computer specs for running adobe programs

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Which pc would you choose?I see google ai said that the Lenovo might not be able to run high performance tasks. Is the asus ryzen 7 a better option? Or what do you use ASUS TUF Gaming A15 AMD Ryzen 7-7435HS / 16GB DDR5 RAM / 512GB Ultra-Fast NVMe SSD / NVIDIA 30 Series GeForce RTX 3050 4GBOr Lenovo LOQ 15IAX9 12th Gen Intel Core i5-1245 / 16GB DDR5 RAM / 512GB Ultra-Fast NVMe SSD / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB

Bobby Henderson · Accepted Answer

My Wndows systems are Dell. They sell Alienware too.

My newest system are XPS 15 7590 with an i9 processor, 64 GB RAM, 2 TB SSD, 4K monitor. It's a little old--purchased in 2019--but it still runs circles around most laptops I've come across. I also got the 4 year hardware and accident coverage (from Dell, not a third party).

Since laptops are hard-to-impossible to upgrade, get the best you can so it will last. I usually max everything out and then decide where to cut back due to budget. (Dell also offers financing.)

Some notebooks can be upgraded to a limited extent. I have an Alienware X17 system at home; I have its RAM maxed out at 64GB, but the memory modules are removable. It's increasingly rare to find notebooks with removable, user-serviceable RAM modules. So many OEMs just love soldering the RAM onto the motherboard so they can be like Apple. The SSD bays in the computer have removable drives that are easy to replace in case one fails. As bad as baked-in RAM can be, some OEMs have the audacity (or stupidity) to solder a computer's SSD into the motherboard too. A failure in a baked-in SSD can result in a very expensive repair job or just require the entire notebook to be replaced.

Making matters worse, various small form factor computers (Mac Mini, Mac Studio and various other hamburger size computers) are using the same notebook PC manufacturing methods, often soldering critical components like RAM and even the SSD into the motherboard. Traditional desktop tower PCs are either getting more expensive, harder to find or if they're available at a site like Dell's they're harder to configure with a good price to computing power balance.

Conrad_C · Answer

I’m not sure which CPU is better, but the 12th Gen Intel is about two generations behind the current one.

In general, for Adobe applications I think 16GB of RAM is minimal today, especially if you plan to use multiple Adobe applications simultaneously. I really like having the 32GB in my current laptop, but I could probably get away with 24GB. But 32GB is probably better matched to future software requirements. It also depends on what kind of work you do with Adobe software, because if you said part of your work was editing very large Photoshop documents or long animations in Adobe After Effects, I think a good minimum for that would be 48GB.

For the GPU, it seems like 8GB is the baseline for pro workflows today. 6GB could be OK, but I would probably refuse 4GB unless the GPU workloads were light. It’s important to recognize that if you are interested in the best performance when using the many new features based on machine learning/AI, that is very GPU-based so you don’t want to skimp on that for the future.

If you’re asking in the Illustrator community because you use Illustrator the most and the others only occasionslly, and if you’re on a tight budget, maybe 16GB RAM and the 6GB GPU would be OK for a few years.

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