

The more pixels, the more fine detail you’ll see.

Resolution is the amount of pixels your screen displays. For a long time I used Inkscape and Illustrator on a machine with 8 GB of memory and it was certainly enough to handle my workload. With 8 GB you’ll be able to work with multiple high resolution photos at a time, while having your browser, email application and Spotify running in the background, and without much slowdown.
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Design software tends to hog memory (especially the Adobe suite,) so I recommend going for no less than 8 GB of memory. The more memory you have, the more applications you can run simultaneously with less slowdown. Memory (or RAM) is the amount of information your computer can handle at a time. You’ll experience a great deal of frustration if you go for anything less than that though, so it’s not recommended. At 2.0 GHz, applications from the Adobe suite may be a tad bit slow to load, but once they do, they should run seamlessly for the most part.

From my own personal experiences, a speed of 2.0 GHz is the absolute bare minimum you should aim for. There’s more to understanding what kind of CPU would be best than I could possibly cover in this post, but a general measuring stick you could reference would be clock speed. It’s responsible for processing commands from both the hardware and the software. The processor (or CPU) is the brains of your computer. The first area of focus is the processor.
