Older MacBook Air..

[Sean27091200zo38]

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

[TheDigitalDog]

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

[Jao vdL]

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.