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Atom, Chrome and Firefox on a 2017 8GB 13" MBP - no issues in using it for development. I upgraded it only because my keyboard died.
by JAlexoid 6y ago
Atom, Chrome and Firefox on a 2017 8GB 13" MBP - no issues in using it for development.
I upgraded it only because my keyboard died.
- whynotminot 6y agoI guess I mean more that if you're going to buy a brand new dev machine in 2020, you shouldn't buy anything with less than 16GB of RAM. You can still be productive right this moment on 8GB of RAM (you're proving it!), but the march of time will inevitably start to make that amount feel less and less tolerable, if it isn't already. Personally, when I buy a dev machine, I'm generally trying to look at the next few years of ownership. Will 8GB of RAM cut it in 2023? Doubtful. 16GB? Yeah, a little safer. But 32GB would make me feel better.
- 00deadbeef 6y agoWhat kind of development? Firefox, Spotify, Slack, WhatsApp, any JetBrains IDE, an iOS Simulator, and an Android Simulator will have my 16GB MBP swapping like crazy.