These include how many photos you’re editing each week, the size of the images you’re shooting, the amount of time you have available and your budget. Your hardware needs depend on several factors. If you want to enjoy using Lightroom, you’ll definitely want to exceed these minimum requirements.

They allow Lightroom to run… well, it’ll walk. Then you can make your own decisions based on your needs and budget.Īdobe publishes system requirements for Lightroom Classic, but we should be clear… these are MINIMUM system requirements. (If you want specifics, Puget Systems are doing regular testing.) What we will do is talk about which hardware benefits different Lightroom tasks. We’re not going to go into specific hardware recommendations, because they’d be out of date almost immediately. Every single day, we see posts asking how to choose a new computer for Lightroom.