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MacBook Pro 16“ Lightroom + PS

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enemy14123

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Hello :)
I will buy soon the new MacBook Pro.
With the

Core i9 2.3
GPU 8gb
SsD Maybe 2 tb
RAM : 32 vs. 64 gb

in the Future i will have the Sony A7r4
Are 32 gb enough for Lightroom and Photoshop?

Greetings and thank you :)
 
Thank you :)
I Take the 32 gb
I was a little bit afraid because the raw Files are extremly big (61megapixels ; 120-150 Mb)
Greetings
 
I’m hoping 32GB RAM is enough as I just ordered the 16 inch with 32GB, 4TB SSD, i9 2.3GHz, 5500 8GB GPU. There is limited info that I could find so far on recommended configurations with the new 16.
I’m coming from an early 2013 15” MBPr with 16GB RAM and 500GB SSD. my reason for upgrading is that the current laptop slows to a crawl when doing intensive local adjustments in LR, often taking 5-15 seconds for each adjustment to update.
 
Chrisd999 said:
I’m hoping 32GB RAM is enough as I just ordered the 16 inch with 32GB, 4TB SSD, i9 2.3GHz, 5500 8GB GPU. There is limited info that I could find so far on recommended configurations with the new 16.
I’m coming from an early 2013 15” MBPr with 16GB RAM and 500GB SSD. my reason for upgrading is that the current laptop slows to a crawl when doing intensive local adjustments in LR, often taking 5-15 seconds for each adjustment to update.
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That's weird. I have a mid 2012 and it has 16 GB but it's still pretty fast imo. what type of CPU is in the 2013 MBP? Surely a quad core at least?
 
quite an interesting topic

My wife has MB Pro 13" 8GB RAM Core i5, she initially had Mojave installed and had severe problems with Photoshop freezing the whole MacBook (latest version, as well as last but one). I thought the issue was the lack of RAM, but after tweaking permissions and upgrading to Catalina everything runs pretty smoothly.

We are using Sony A7III and A6000 for photography, so RAWs a relatively small though (up to 24MB)

I will be probably getting 16" at some point, so it would be nice to know editing goes with your Mac when you get it!
 
Yes, I’m not so computer savvy, so maybe my LR performance issue has to do with my large catalog or my settings. Regardless of that, I still welcome the upgrade as I will have the opportunity to store my entire archive of images on the 4TB SSD without having to plug in external drives.
 
Chrisd999 said:
Yes, it’s a quad core i7.
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Integrated graphics or dedicated GPU? If integrated graphics, have you tried disabling GPU hardware acceleration? I have a mid-2014 with integrated graphics, and it was horribly sluggish. I recall disabling GPU hardware acceleration helped, still slow but more responsive and no glitching.
 
Yes, it has a nvidia 650M (IIRC), which I did try disabling In LR. Didn’t seem to make any difference.
 
Chrisd999 said:
Yes, I’m not so computer savvy, so maybe my LR performance issue has to do with my large catalog or my settings. Regardless of that, I still welcome the upgrade as I will have the opportunity to store my entire archive of images on the 4TB SSD without having to plug in external drives.
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As long as you do a backup mate. I learned the hard way... All drives die eventually. I prefer to leave the disk as empty as possible and use external disks these days. Just a few days worth of work and then it goes to an external HD-s.

As for performance, it's hard to tell where the bottleneck is. Maybe some people know more about that.
 
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I'm trying to decide between the 4GB and 8GB graphics card. I'm wondering as a photographer if the 8gb will bring me any benefits with Photoshop. Any thoughts? I could see how Final Cut could take advantage of it but I don't know about Photoshop.
 
sfwalter said:
I'm trying to decide between the 4GB and 8GB graphics card. I'm wondering as a photographer if the 8gb will bring me any benefits with Photoshop. Any thoughts? I could see how Final Cut could take advantage of it but I don't know about Photoshop.
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I asked the same question here:
forums.macrumors.com

Which graphics on new 16"?

Perfect, thank you.
forums.macrumors.com forums.macrumors.com

The answer I got was:

Go check out Max Tech youtube channel, they just made a video with your question in mind.

Basically don't upgrade graphics but take 32gb of Ram.

A quick YouTube search found it, I don't plan to upgrade the graphics memory.
 
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GPU helps only on certain limited operations with LR/PS, so I don't think 8GB on GPU would be of much help, if you concentrate solely on photography
 
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@Whackman

Thank you :)
so 32gb are enough for this files?
Next year I want to buy the camera

@Chrisd999

I also have the old Retina (mid 2012)
We are in the same boat :)
the 16 inch is so beautiful and the 2012 is even 7 years old.

Greetings
 
enemy14123 said:
Hello :)
I will buy soon the new MacBook Pro.
With the

Core i9 2.3
GPU 8gb
SsD Maybe 2 tb
RAM : 32 vs. 64 gb

in the Future i will have the Sony A7r4
Are 32 gb enough for Lightroom and Photoshop?

Greetings and thank you :)
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Go 64gb RAM.
You won't regret.
 
enemy14123 said:
@Whackman

Thank you :)
so 32gb are enough for this files?
Next year I want to buy the camera

@Chrisd999

I also have the old Retina (mid 2012)
We are in the same boat :)
the 16 inch is so beautiful and the 2012 is even 7 years old.

Greetings
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Have never worked with raw files that big to be honest.
But you can make a 150MB file by increasing the size of a RAW file you have now.
Then see how your 2012 handles it. In this case it's 8 core vs quad core, Better graphics card and more RAM.

With files that big 64GB might be more future proof. But it would also be a waste of money if the extra 32 GB never gets used. If you won't miss that money that much, go for it.
 
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