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Can the MacBook Pro (16-inch, M2 Pro, 2023) run Adobe Lightroom Classic?
Minimum requirements
Likely meets minimum requirements
Likely meets recommended requirements
Operating system — supported (Windows: Windows 10 (version 22H2) or Windows 11 (version 23H2 or later); Mac: macOS Sonoma (version 14.x) or …); versions are shown, not compared. RAM — needs 8 GB; it depends on the configuration bought (up to 32 GB). Processor — Apple silicon is supported. Graphics — needs 2 GB of video memory; Apple silicon uses unified memory.
How this was judged
Graphics chips are compared by class (an 8-tier rubric), not by benchmark score. The same tier as the requirement is only ever “likely”. Read the tier rubric and its limitations.
- Adobe Lightroom Classic system requirements · publisher requirements
Published requirements
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
Sources and limits
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- Adobe — Lightroom Classic technical requirements (October 2025 release, version 15.0 and later) · retrieved 10/7/2026
The laptop’s figures come from its verified specification page. Requirements are the publisher’s and can change. This compares the laptop with the publisher’s listed native requirements — it does not account for emulation, translation layers or cloud gaming. See how we verify the specs.
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