8th Gen i5 CPU on MPB 13"

[hamishm57845473]

Hi there, I'm not sure exactly where to post this but hopefully here is the right place.

I'm looking to upgrade my laptop and I'm having trouble finding the info I need to make a decision.

I travel a lot and and am an avid photographer. Basically I need a easily portable laptop that will run LR and PS along with DXO Nik filters without too much lag. My current late 2015 Mac Book Air 1"1 with 1.6Ghz CPU/4GB Ram just doesn't cut it and constantly freezes and lags, especially applying multiple local adjustment filters on LR.

I only use a 24MP camera.

My question is will the 8th Gen i5 2.3Ghz Quad Core processor in the 2018 13" MBP's with 16GB Ram have enough power for the majority of photo only editing requirements? or will I need to fork out even more the i7 2.7Ghz.

Also, is 16GM Ram even necessary, or will 8GB be enough?

I'm not a professional and wont be batch editing wedding photos or anything like that. What I'm more into is PS composites and heavily edited LR pictures.

Thanks,

HM

[postrophix]

Hi

I would go with with the 15" model + the best i7 + 16GM Ram + the biggest SSD hard drive possible.

I carry that on my packsac all the time. You need to think long term.

Pierre

[Ussnorway]

no an I5 will not do the job... spend the cash to get an I7 but 16G ram is fine for a Windows system as long as you don't just get an inbuilt Gcard i.e, cheap laptops have just the Intel cpu to run their graphics and are worthless for anything more than reading emails but as long as the laptop has a Gcard (its actually just a chip in laptops) like a Gforce 840M then that does the heavy lifting and 16G of ram should be fine.

imo ssd drives are not needed in laptops... a sshd is much cheaper and fine for what you will be doing

[Lumigraphics]

An i5 is just fine, RAM is very important and a fast scratch disk is second.

My main workstation is a 2011 iMac with an i5 and 20GB of RAM (I haven't put in an SSD yet.) My backup is a 2011 13" MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM and an SSD. Both work fine with 20mp files. I have a Thunderbolt dock to plug in USB 3 drives.

Any recent Retina MacBook Pro should be fine, I'd spring for 16GB of RAM since that can't be upgraded.