Most modern laptops will handle Adobe Illustrator just fine including every MacBook Pro released for the past 7 years. The truth is… Image tracing on a laptop with an AMD Ryzen 5 is done in about 1.5 sec. Hardware becomes a problem is when you start looking at Adobe Illustrator like MS Paint and you think you can get away with a 250 dollar laptop off of ebay. You may run into some issues if your versions of Illustrator vary (say from CS on Mac to CS2 on Windows).I’ve been using Adobe Illustrator and most of the Adobe Creative Cloud package on laptops for about 5 years now.Īlthough Adobe Illustrator uses old and outdated code, the complaints about Adobe Illustrator being slow are rarely due to hardware defficiencies. The same OT font files can be used on both Macs and Windows.)Īs far as the files themselves are concerned, you'll find that a 'CS' file on Mac is almost (if not exactly) the same as a 'CS' file on Windows.

(While I don't have any experience with OpenType, you should look at this as an option. This may produce different kerning and lines of text may wrap differently. While you may have 'Arial' on both your Mac and Windows systems, they may not be identical versions the metrics for each version may be different because they're from different foundaries or they were produced at different times. I can say with a reasonable amount of confidence that fonts will probably be your biggest issue. Adobe's website would be an excellent place to continue your research. Probably your questions are better answered in an Illustrator forum rather than here in a Mac/Windows forum.

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