Photography

Please help!! Hobby photograph —personal/travel/pics of my family/kids ! I have a lot of photos sitting on SD cards that need to be edited & organized.

I have an older Mac book pro and I’m looking to upgrade. What do you edit on? I’ve only used my iPad in the past with Lightroom cc, not Lightroom classic. However, I’m considering buying Topaz and understand a computer is needed to run. So now I’m considering switching to Lightroom classic — can anyone tell me the differences ? Do I have to ditch the iPad all together if I switch to Lightroom classic ? It would be nice to still use the iPad when I’m not using Topaz. have not yet tackled learning photoshop— future goal but don’t currently use it.

I love the simplicity of using the iPad but I’m open to using the laptop .

I’m really trying to figure out what I need to make things easy—looking to buy another MacBook!

I would also love recommendations on how/where you store your raw & edited images bc I have a lot of travel photos from over the years 😃

Here are my options (I can “afford” any of these but only if it’s worth the extra cost and not wasteful): my husband and I are thinking the 18 RAM is enough — thoughts ???

MacBook Pro 14 inch $1,999 M3 Pro chip (11 Core CPU 14 GPU) 18GB RAM 512 SSD

MacBook Pro 14 inch $2,399 M3 Pro chip (12 Core CPU 18 GPU) 18GB RAM 1TB SSD

MacBook Pro 16 inch $2,899 M3 Pro chip (12 Core CPU 18 GPU) 36GB RAM 512 SSD