For Illustrator — System Requirements

: A dedicated GPU significantly speeds up zooming, panning, and rendering 3D effects.

Elena had 8GB. She might as well have been using a potato. system requirements for illustrator

Multicore Intel or AMD (64-bit with SSE 4.2+) or Apple Silicon (M1+) 8-core processor with 4GHz+ turbo frequency 16 GB to 32 GB Graphics (GPU) 1 GB VRAM with OpenGL 4.0+ or Metal support 4 GB to 8 GB VRAM (e.g., NVIDIA RTX series) Storage 2–3 GB available space (plus installation space) 512 GB+ NVMe SSD Monitor 1024 x 768 resolution 1920 x 1080 or 4K resolution Platform Specifics : A dedicated GPU significantly speeds up zooming,

: Supports macOS v15 (Sequoia), v14 (Sonoma), and v13 (Ventura). and v13 (Ventura).