Originally Posted by
MaxBuck
I do, in fact, have 8 GB of RAM, but any new machine would have 16. Your comment about discrete graphics is on point, since there aren't a lot of lightweight machines that have it. Maybe, as you suggest, the real solution is to get a different pdf editing software. And the SSD is kind of a slam dunk.
If you find a good third-party PDF editing tool, I'd be very glad to hear a review on it.
I'd especially love one that does a decent job of background removal on scans of old documents, as Adobe's version of that feature is kind of a joke.