Thanks for the suggestions. Maybe someone else here will find them helpful if they're considering a new build. I'm not in the market to build a new Windows comp

Thanks for the suggestions. Maybe someone else here will find them helpful if they're considering a new build. I'm not in the market to build a new Windows computer after just building the one I have now a year ago, though. I'm fine with just using the Macbook for photo editing. It's very possible that there's something else going wrong with my Windows desktop as it's setup now, and it should be running better than it does. Whatever that may be, I'm unsure. I would expect the programs to at least be usable, but they aren't. And this isn't directed at you in particular, but I should probably make it clear (since for some reason my comments have been getting downvotes) that I'm not saying that Windows computers in general are incapable of running these programs, and I'm not a Mac fanboy in any sense of the word. I'm relaying what I've experienced. If I click and hold an adjustment brush, drag it an inch, let go of the mouse button, then move the mouse to another area of the screen, the program shouldn't lag to the point where it doesn't even register that I let off the adjustment brush and give me a stroke that goes across the entire photo. And yet it does. It doesn't benefit me at all to lie about it.