Funscuba, Ram and storage have almost nothing to do with computing power needed to run applications. You could put 64 GB and 12 TB on your current system or even the M1 equipped system and it would make almost zero difference in how responsive the system is compared to how it is now. The processor is what makes it faster or slower. Ram is just the memory the computer uses to temporarily store the stuff it is working on when running your application. Too little ram would begin to impact performance because if it does not have enough working space in memory it has to swap out pieces to storage which is magnitudes slower to access than ram. However you are likely already above minimum ram. Storage is only where your files are stored. Nowadays you trade constant updates, features and support for money and few developers sell their software for a single fixed price because they can't recoup the considerable cost and effort it took to maintain and provide any support. I'd love to go back to paying $500 once for Photoshop, but that's long gone. For the task you want to do, if you balk at paying anything to do it, you might as well throw your computer away because like free scuba lesson, the cost only goes up from here.
