> I my case it adds up: Slack, Docker CE (that spins up a VM on Mac) for tests, corporate Docker EE setup (runs alongside Docker CE), elasticsearch, kafka, and

> I my case it adds up: Slack, Docker CE (that spins up a VM on Mac) for tests, corporate Docker EE setup (runs alongside Docker CE), elasticsearch, kafka, and 9 more services inside that corporate Docker setup, two Chromes (Chrome Stable and Chrome Canary), multiple VSCode instances. And if you need to build something with boost or folly you can add 3GB ram just for that. Sure, but any Ultrabook is going to struggle running all of that, and more RAM isn't going to help by itself. You can run all of that on a Macbook Pro, but not a Macbook Air; the XPS 13 is intended to be comparable to the Macbook Air.