Yes. It's just not ideal. It depends a lot on what you want to do. Plenty of developers work on remote boxes either by remote desktop or SSH. That is not very m

Yes. It's just not ideal. It depends a lot on what you want to do. Plenty of developers work on remote boxes either by remote desktop or SSH. That is not very memory intensive. On the other hand, if you want to make iPhone apps, you'd probably want more, as Xcode for e.g. is a resource hog.