I’m not a professional. I shoot RAW/Jpeg and often the Jpeg is fine. But I’d like to be able to improve/salvage the RAW version of a very good photo if needed. DxO minimum configuration is 16GB RAM. If my system will be slow to respond, frustrating the experience, then I’ll probably wait until I can upgrade to a properly configured machine.
Other specs:
8-core CPU, 10-core GPU; 13.6" Retina display - 2,560x1,664
Thanks.
I use PL9 on a M1 MacBook Air from 2020 (8+8 core, 16GB RAM) and user interaction and export are at least as fast as working on an 5K iMac. Note: 99% of my images come as RAW.
The features that take their time are some of the AI local adjustments. If you don’t plan to use them a lot, your current machine should be okay. The RAM might be a little bit low, but testing PL9 should reveal the impact. Note that you can test PL9 for 30 days, bot only once. So plan ahead and be prepared in order to not waste the time.
I ran PL9 on macOS 14, 15, 26 and have been testing on 27 beta..
I’d recommend to use PL9 on macOS 14 or 15.
Thanks for your response. I didn’t mention that I’m running macOS 26.5.2. I generally stay pretty much up-to-date, installing updates a week or two after they’re released.
I can’t predict what adjustments I’ll need to make, but if it’s a few process-intensive ones taking minutes instead of seconds then I can live with that. It’s too bad you can’t upgrade the memory in these laptops.
A trial run would be the next step but didn’t want to bother if the responsiveness prognosis wasn’t good.
I appreciate your feedback.