Upgrade opportunities Macbook

Hello everyone,

I have a MacBook Pro (retina, start in 2015) with standard specifications:

-2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 processor

-8 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 memory

-Video graphics card Intel 6100 Iris trolley 1536 MB

This year, I use my Mac mainly for editing and animation (if Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects) and it becomes very slow when using them. To speed it up I have a few questions:

1) I was researching and first downloaded the latest driver NVIDIA CUDA to improve performance. The download went well, I installed it, but I can't activate it. For some reason he can't locate/activate the CUDA driver.


Could someone help me to finally get CUDA running?


2) I was planning to upgrade my RAM, which is a mediocre 8 GB (instead of at least 12 GB I think I might need). In a previous MacBook, I upgraded the RAM myself, but after a little research I came to the conclusion that the Pro retina has one improvement RAM integrated, and it is (almost) impossible to replace this.

Y at - it another option to give my RAM help?

3) so the third and last question is:

What are my other options to boost my MacBook for a relatively low price?

It's very frustrating, working while I almost preview anything because of the lack of speed on my Mac.

I hope you guys can give me some advice! Forward reactions!

Welcome, TobyOneKenobi

1. CUDA for GPU Nvidia and AMD/ATI not Intel, as you have

2. all you can do is not run applications and services at the same time yo and optimize memory. The memory cannot be upgraded

3. not that I know of since yo have an SSD

This is the Office Mac Pro forum. I asked that your post be moved to the MacBook Pro laptop forum.

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