Especially if you’re just starting out as a photographer or want to pursue a photography career, you probably want to spend a few extra bugs for a bigger SSD. Your RAM and SSD are basically the only two things you can upgrade but these are so important if you want to use your MacBook long term. The SSD, your hard drive is probably worth upgrading. The MacBook Air is really a business laptop now instead of a cheap MacBook Pro. It is just the i5 processor now and there is no way in upgrading it. They have downgraded the processors for new MacBook Airs which is really the downside of this MacBook. They used to have an i7 processor for the MacBook Air that would make the Mac an absolute beast and super fast. The real downside of making the new MacBook Air as your photo editing machine is the processor. Long term you will have way more fun with your MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM instead of the base model with 8GB. But if you do have $200 that you can spend for an extra 8GB of RAM, you should really do that. That means that if you’re on a budget, you can leave this as it is. Like I said, 8GB is the minimum you need for photo editing in Lightroom. The base model starts at 128GB SSD and 8GB of RAM which is the least you need for Lightroom to let it run smoothly. I think the base model of the MacBook Air is better than my MacBook Air at the time, my SSD of 500GB was almost $1200, already more expensive than the current base model of the MacBook. Things has changed since then and even the MacBook Air is almost a professional photo editing machine these days. It was around $2,000 and it was an absolute beast. When I bought my MacBook Air in 2013, it was one of the best Apple computers at the time for that budget. So the question is can I use my MacBook Air for photo editing? What MacBook Air do I need for Lightroom? I edited all my photos from this MacBook connected to a Cinema Display, it was a pretty heavy setup but it was also a heavy burden on my MacBook while photo editing. It was maxed out with 8GB RAM, 500GB SSD and an I7 processor. When I started my photo editing service back in 2014, my main computer that I used was a MacBook Air from 2013.
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