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Yup, but why would a video editor buy a laptop that's limited to 16GB of RAM these days?
by cauterized 10y ago
Yup, but why would a video editor buy a laptop that's limited to 16GB of RAM these days?
- icedchai 10y agoBecause when your disk IO subsystem can do 2+ Gigabytes/second, RAM is much less of a factor.
- fgonzag 10y agoNot really, unless you want to use it for a swap file. I'm currently sitting at 12 GB of RAM in use, with about 21 GB committed. I'm on half dev mode (watching netflix while hacking a bit) Right now I only have 1 VM with one IDE open (thank god for vagrant), but I can have as many as 3 VMs and two IDEs (mixed .net and java shop here). Pushing 24GB of RAM in use is not uncommon for me (including the 50 or so chrome tabs and what not). Could I make do with 16GB? Probably, but I'd have to change my development habits, and I don't really want to.
- icedchai 10y agoI was mainly referring to the video editing use case, where video could be streamed off disk quickly enough. For your use case, 16 gigs may indeed may not be enough. What do you do with 50 tabs? I usually keep 10 open at most.