Which Mini M2 Configuration for Photography

[Mettaman]

I don't earn any income from my photos. I use Lightroom Classic, Photo Mechanic and Topaz Photo AI. I import 100's of 24MB RAW files for sorting and editing. Which of the following M2 Mini configurations do you recommend, and why? My inclination is to get the 24GB memory because I can't upgrade memory in the future. My current computers* are painfully slow and get hot working with RAW photo files. Thanks!!​

a) 1T - 16GB
b) 512GB - 24 GB

*MacBook Pro 2019, i5, 8GB/250GB
*IMac 5K 2015, i7, 8GB/3.2TB

 

[Rix__Mix]

You will want 24GB of RAM.

Lightroom eats RAM and when you start multi-tasking with other software titles you will get in to swap territory. I just returned my Mini 16GB for a 32GB model exactly for this reason.