2012 macbook pro 13 i7 16gb ram upgrades

If I install the 13 inch 2.5GHz i5 laptop with 16GB RAM as is possible, how would it perform when running After Effects and Premiere? It currently has 4GB and it very quickly runs out of memory meaning playback of goes very slowly when previewing complex files in the timeline. I realise I could potentially look at a high end iMac if memory is a concern, but I prefer the portability of a laptop so I’m restricting myself to portable options for the moment.

The 2014 15 inch MacBook – while an excellent computer at the moment – could potentially be slightly limited with regard to future Adobe software releases as its max RAM is 16GB. While I don’t know for sure this will happen, it does seem quite likely at some stage.

If I waited for Broadwell based 15 inch MacBooks I think its likely they’ll be expandable to 32GB RAM, making the computer a better long term investment.Įg if Adobe increase minimum/recommended memory requirements for their software in the next few years. Having read about the upcoming Broadwell chip, which I think may be capable of supporting 32GB RAM (possibly coming in Q2 2015 from the various websites I’ve visited) I wonder if it is worth holding off my purchase, and maxing out my older 13 inch laptop in order to run After Effects and Premiere for the time being. I realise there is a big difference between these two machines in terms of their specs – the 15 inch with the dedicated GPU will be far more suited to motion graphics work than the lower spec machine with integrated graphics card.Ĭurrently, my understanding is that After Effects CS6 and Premiere CS6 do not support the NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M but from research on the net I believe it’s possible to add this video card to the list of supported cards within the respective applications, forcing them to recognise and use it. If I do, I’ll get the retina 15 inch / Intel Quad Core i7 / 16GB RAM / Intel Iris Pro Graphics / NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M / 1TB Flash Storage. I’m considering purchasing one of the new Haswell based MacBook Pro (mid 2014) models for myself. (Official Apple specs I realise say 8GB RAM is the max for this computer but I’ve looked into this thoroughly and have confirmed that 16GB is in fact possible.)

I understand this Mac can be maxed out at 16GB of RAM. My workplace allows me to use a 2.5 GHz Intel Dual Core i5 / MacBook Pro 13 inch (mid 2012, non retina) with hard disk and integrated graphics card (Intel HD Graphics 4000 512MB). (I also work with Photoshop and Illustrator.) I’m interested in working with After Effects CS6 and Premiere CS6 probably creating quite heavily layered files and experimenting with and combining effects.

2012 macbook pro 13 i7 16gb ram upgrades