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Yep. But these days for anything else, I just fire up a cloud VM and kill it when it's done. I spent less on that than the 3900X and RAM would have cost me in 5
by qz2 6y ago
Yep. But these days for anything else, I just fire up a cloud VM and kill it when it's done. I spent less on that than the 3900X and RAM would have cost me in 5 years.
My main daily driver machine and dev box is now the absolute ass end M1 Mac Mini and it's the best computer I have ever had.
- doikor 6y agoI pretty much do work that needs more then 16GB of memory all day every day (and can take advantage of CPU cores up to 12 to 16 range). But yeah very dependent on your environment/workflow. Especially if you are just doing lightweight web dev 16GB is more then enough (could probably get away with 8GB or less)
- codenesium 6y agoMy primary dev environment is in ec2. I don't really care about multiple monitors. It's so convenient.
- paulgb 6y agoCan you tell me more about your setup? Like which ec2 instance size, remote desktop software, and any other tips? I’ve considered doing the same.
- shmoogy 6y agoI use different size instances, but I use SSH (mosh), tmux, and vscoder through the browser, when I "need" an IDE. on my MacBook Air, I use azure data studio to connect to our MSSQL instances if I need a UI view of our database.
- arafsheikh 6y agoWhat do multiple monitors have to do with having a dev env on EC2? But on a similar note, I use VS Code's Remote SSH plugin to connect to an EC2 on one monitor and terminal + browser on the other. It's not my primary dev env, but it's great for experiments and side projects.
- wongarsu 6y agoI sit here with 24GB memory usage just from my browser, a couple PDFs and two IDEs (Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code).
- qz2 6y agoYeah that’s like one chrome tab running slack.
- astrange 6y agoYour computer always uses as much memory as possible. That’s not evidence it wouldn’t work with less.
- cameronh90 6y agoI have 64GB memory and still occasionally get OOMs with my dev workload. As always, it depends what you're doing.
- fctorial 6y agoWhat are you doing?