When you buy a new computer for digital creative work, what specs are most important? I’m pleased that my article “How to Buy a Computer for Creative Work” is the cover story for the February 2025 issue of CreativePro Magazine. Learn how the type of creative work you do affects how you want to balance and budget for memory, storage, processors, and other components.

When you start thinking about buying a new computer, today’s choices can be more challenging than in the past. Will more CPU cores or more memory make a difference? What about the GPU, and do you need an NPU? How do you weigh options on a budget?

In this article I get you up to date, pairing up the changing hardware needs of creative software with the newest and sometimes unfamiliar features in the latest computers.

To read the article click the links below. The first link leads to issue 40 of CreativePro Magazine (February 2025) in PDF format, and the second link leads to the article on the CreativePro website. Both are available to members with a paid CreativePro membership.

Go to CreativePro Magazine, Issue 40. The article is on page 5.

Go to How to Buy a Computer for Creative Work on CreativePro.com.

All CreativePro Magazine issues are available as part of a paid CreativePro membership, which can help you advance your Adobe Creative Cloud skills with the help of some of the most knowledgeable users in the industry. Filled with practical, real-world tutorials written by experts, CreativePro Magazine provides independent, valuable insights into how to work more efficiently and design more effectively. Each issue offers tutorials, reviews, news, and inspirational content from five main subjects: Design, Photo, Illustration, Presentation, and InDesign. You can download a free trial issue. Membership also brings other benefits, including discounts on CreativePro events such as the annual CreativePro Week conference, and conferences on other subjects such as accessibility and presentation design.