Advice please

[mhb03692]

Good afternoon,

I am looking at at getting a Macbook pro m2 pro, I have found one used with 16gb ram for £1300 with the pro chip and one used with 32gb ram for £1800 with the max chip. Potentially avaliable for negotiation.

I mostly edit photos heavily using Adobe lightroom classic and Luminar Neo. Storage is not as issue as i have plenty of external SSD's

I do edit video, both with Premiere pro and Davinci Resolve.

60% of my work is photo editing, 40% of my work is video editing.

My question being, will the 16gb be enough as I know it performs pretty well with swap memory, or would it be best advised to save a little extra for the 32gb ram?

I know the max chip will out perform the pro chip but for the extra money is is necessary?

Thanks

Myles

 

[Ben J.]

My immediate thought is that you'll probably find Premiere and Lightroom running in paralell on the 16GB very tight, if not problematic. But then, launching and quitting apps is so fast on these machines, you might be able to live with that. I love that I can have Lightroom, Pro Tools DAW, and everything running all the time. 32GB is great.