over 3 years ago from Itay Dreyfus, Product Designer
Does anyone here work on the MBP Retina 2012 machines?
I have an MBP 13' 8GB late 2012 and now Sketch and Figma run slowly. Setup: https://imgur.com/n48lVep
I might have another issue with my MBP anyway but I wanted to know if there's someone with a 2012 machine that runs both tools smoothly.
The 8gb of ram is probably your issue, more than anything
Yes, probably. Thanks.
8GB is plenty for 2D design tools, ignore them.
Figma actually can take 2-3gb depends on the amount of opened tabs.
reimage your machine and do not restore from backup. it's a pain but it'll run like you just took it out of the box
I adopted a similar machine recently and have noticed that the apps are running slower. Photoshop and browsers run slow.
The original set up a 2010 MBP i7 is much better. Granted it was upgraded ram and SSD. The upgrade can't be done to the 2012 model since apple decided to change their ways.
Take a look here, might explain some of the slowdowns (especially with Figma):
I’d say that issue you describing is caused by graphic card (or the absence of dedicated one)
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