New laptop

Few years ago I bought one of the first Luminar versions. I liked it a lot, but it was just so ridiculously slow on my laptop that I gave up and went back to using only Lightroom (which works and worked just fine – on my old - not fancy at all- laptop!). With the new Luminar Neo and relatively positive reviews I could not resist the temptation and I purchased the Neo version. It is running (running is not the correct word- it is moving very slowly) on my old laptop (intel 5, 8GB RAM, SSD, shared graphics card).

I don’t want to give up this time, my laptop is anyway old, it is time for a new one. I’m looking at laptop with the following specifics:

intel 7, 1000SSD, 16 RAM and GTX 1650 (4GB).

According to your description is should be good to run the application optimal. However I still find a lot of complains – people using these configurations. I’m not a professional photographer so I don’t need it very fast but to wait 10 min to upload the photo is just ridiculous. I don’t want to waste money on new laptop and find out that Neo is still running very slow

Could you please give some recommendation?

Kate Williams

November 17, 2022 10:39

Hi Brit,

The recommended specs for PCs are as follows:

Processor Intel® Core™ i7 7th generation or better, AMD Ryzen™ 7 2nd generation or better. The more CPU cores, the better.

Graphics Discrete GPU with 4GB+ of RAM

Memory 16 GB of RAM or more (the more, the better)

System Windows 10 version 1909 or higher (only 64-bit OS)

Disk space 10 GB free space with SSD as primary drive

Monitor Calibrated monitor with at least 1920×1200 resolution

Extensions rely on graphics cards more extensively now, so if you're going for a laptop, a dedicated GPU with bigger RAM is very recommended. Also, the general rule is 'the more RAM, the better'.

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