Adobe identifies two tiers of requirements: the bare minimum to run the software and the recommended specs for actual professional work. Minimum Requirement Recommended Specification

Her rig—a dusty, whining laptop she’d nicknamed “The Snail”—had only 8GB of RAM and a processor that wheezed whenever she opened a second browser tab.

Maya nodded solemnly. “The software is just a promise. The hardware is the handshake.”

Maya wept.