The minimum operating system requirements for Photo Mechanic and Photo Mechanic Plus are:
  • macOS 10.11.6 (El Capitan) – 11.x (Big Sur)
  • Windows 8 (64 bit), Windows 10 


In addition, we recommend:

  • At least 4GB of RAM - more if you're able, especially if you use Photo Mechanic alongside Adobe products
  • Your free disk space needs to be at least twice the amount of the largest memory cards you will be ingesting.
  • A display with a minimum of 1024 by 768 using 32-bit color space or millions of colors.