Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop work on Apple M2 chip MacBook Pro?

[ugurc53422441]

Hi;

Planning to upgrade my Macbook Pro to M2 chip version;

Is Adobe Lightrrom Classic and Photoshop work seamless on M2 chip Apple Macbook Pro?

Thanx in advance for your replies;

[Kashif23948951un94]

Yes apps should work. If you face any issues enable Rosetta mode.

[ugurc53422441]

yes! i bought 13inch M2 chipped 24GB Ram MacBook Pro and it works perfect!

[boye grafikb16167921]

May I ask if you use the full Adobe Suite ?Indesign, Acrobat pro, Illustrator and Photoshop 

and if it all works with the M2?

[didiermazier]

To be frank I would wait a little…

[ugurc53422441]

i was agree with you about this road map; checked/tested on my professional friends' new computers then i bought it; works perfect!

[Dăuceanu]

I have a Macbook pro M2 with 8GB RAM. It's an absolut disaster. It is barely working with Lightroom Classic. My desktop Lenovo from 2019 is 10 times faster. Sorry. It is 100% true.

[chanaart]

This is sad. The newer laptop are a disaster!

I have one from 2013 and works like a cahmp

[ugurc53422441]

Hello! i bought/upgraded to 13inch M2 chipped 24GB Ram MacBook Pro(*) and it works perfect / so fast even busy with Lightroom / Photoshop at the same time!

* the old one was: 2016 13 inch MacBook Pro i7 3.3Ghz

[PECourtejoie]

Hello, Chana, it is not clear whether you are just replying with empathy, or if it is also your experience with the M2 processors, it is not what I heard from other sources, IE, it works well.

[JDK4ASU]

I own a 2020 M1 Mac Mini, running Ventura with 16GB of RAM and 1TB of memory. Runs fine. You do not have enough RAM as that is the MINIMUM that Adobe suggests. In fact, I am going to upgrade next year and get a minimum of 24GB of RAM or even 32 if I can afford it. I am coming from a 2018 Mac Mini, Intel 7i with 32GB of RAM. It will run Lightroom and Photoshop fine, but just not Denoise as that needs at least 2GB of VRAM.

Thing is on the M series, VRAM is unified, and if I had more RAM, I would not need to close down applications. In fact, in Activity Center, it is showing just over 7GB needed to run Lighting room on, Therefore I would suggest quiting out of all other applications and seeing if that frees up enough space for Lightroom, especially since you have an M2. 

Hope that helps!

I would highly suggest that

[ugurc53422441]

Hello to all!

UPDATE:

i bought/upgraded to 13inch M2 chipped 24GB Ram MacBook Pro(*) and it works perfect / so fast even busy with Lightroom / Photoshop at the same time!

* the old one was: 2016 13 inch MacBook Pro i7 3.3Ghz

[muazzams95204988]

Hi, I have the new M2 pro mac mini and basically Lightroom and Photoshop are unusable, memory usage goes through the roof even without any photos open and the computer crashes.

[didiermazier]

Maybe the problem is not with the chip but the graphic card…

[PECourtejoie]

@didiermazier it is the equivalent of an APU, the video card is part of the chip, and most tests report that they work well.

[D Fosse]

There is a potential problem in that the GPU uses system memory. Not only is there much less to go around, so that you probably need to double the amount that would normally be needed for Photoshop. There could also be a potential conflict as memory needs grow while working. I don't know, but there have been several threads concerning what looks like memory leaks on M1/M2.

If I was in the market, this is something I'd try to do some research on.

[D Fosse]

Just to illustrate. Here's after 10 minutes of just Photoshop and Lightroom open:

Obviously I pushed it to get those graphs to peak; normally they're not maxed out like that - but the point is it can happen, especially with a deadline 30 minutes away...

The point I'm trying to make here is just that you shouldn't underestimate GPU drain on memory.

(Edited and shortened)

[ugurc53422441]

Hello; sorry to hear; on my new 13inch M2 chipped 24GB Ram MacBook Pr -which i bought 5months ago- both Lightroom & Photoshop works without any problem...

[PECourtejoie]

Hello, what are the specs of your M2? What are the full versions of Ps and Lr?

[ugurc53422441]

• 2022 13 inch M2 chipped Mac Book Pro / 8 core CPU / 10 core GPU / 16 core  Neural Engine
• 24 GB RAM
• 512 GB SSD 
• Adobe Creative Cloud / Annual Year Programmed LR & PS; so the latest updates/versions comes periodically....

[JDK4ASU]

I have a similar problem and the same machine, with 32GB RAM no less!  It is the graphics card. Adopbe recoomends 2GB VRAM. The Mac Mini only had right about 1GB VRAM. My M1 Mac Mini, with 16 GB RAM (now unified of coruse), works very well with Lightroom, especially masking and denoise. 

[Lumigraphics]

I have an M1 mini with 16Gb of RAM and its a much better performer than my old 2015 iMac or my 2015 15" MacBook Pro.

[David347744974tr6]

Hi there , I'm a bit of a novice at these things and have tried many times to get Elements 2023 and 2024 to work on my M2 MB Air . I have now lost patience with it and will use it on my old Toshiba Satalite (Windows 10) where it works perfectly  !