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Can I run Adobe Lightroom Classic?
Adobe Lightroom Classic by Adobe: the publisher’s own system requirements, checked against your exact laptop.
Minimum requirements
- CPU
- Windows: Intel or AMD processor (2 GHz or faster with SSE 4.2 or later and 64-bit support), or ARM processors (via emulation); Intel or AMD CPUs need AVX2 support. Mac: multicore Intel processor (2 GHz or faster with SSE 4.2 or later, 64-bit) or Apple Silicon processor
- GPU
- Windows: GPU with DirectX 12 support, 2 GB of GPU memory. Mac: GPU with Metal support, 2 GB of GPU memory
- RAM
- 8 GB
- Storage
- 8 GB
- OS
- Windows: Windows 10 (version 22H2) or Windows 11 (version 23H2 or later); Mac: macOS Sonoma (version 14.x) or later
Recommended requirements
- CPU
- Same as minimum
- GPU
- Windows: GPU with DirectX 12 support, 4 GB of GPU memory for 4K displays and greater; 8 GB of dedicated GPU memory or 16 GB of shared memory for full GPU acceleration and AI features such as Denoise, Lens Blur and Reflection Removal. Mac: Apple silicon GPU (M1 or later), 16 GB of unified memory for full GPU acceleration and AI features
- RAM
- 16 GB
- OS
- Windows: Windows 10 (version 22H2) or Windows 11 (version 23H2 or later); Mac: macOS Sonoma (version 14.x) or later
Check your laptop
Which laptops can reach 8 GB of RAM?
307 of 328 laptops in our database support at least 8 GB of RAM (the model’s documented maximum). That is capacity, not what ships in the box — check your exact configuration, and see whether your model’s RAM can be upgraded.
Where these requirements come from
- Adobe — Lightroom Classic technical requirements (October 2025 release, version 15.0 and later) · retrieved 10/7/2026
- minimum: Monitor 1024 x 768. Lightroom Classic will not install on case-sensitive file systems or removable flash storage on macOS. Lightroom Classic 14.0 and later are not supported in Rosetta mode on macOS.
- recommended: 16 GB or more of RAM. Use a fast Solid State Disk (SSD). Display 1920 x 1080 or greater.
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