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I have a MBP with 8GB and a PC with 32GB. In my daily work with many web apps, 8GB is certainly not enough. But as long as I don't run Photoshop or Premiere,
by k__ 6y ago
I have a MBP with 8GB and a PC with 32GB.
In my daily work with many web apps, 8GB is certainly not enough.
But as long as I don't run Photoshop or Premiere, 32GB isn't needed either.
Usually my memory usage is around 10-12GB.
- towb 6y agoAbout the same for me... 8 gb was often too little even 10 years ago but for what I do these days 16 is always more than enough.
- gregoriol 6y ago16 not enough here: I'm closer to 20-24 because mostly of lots of browser tabs and switching between projects, rarely because of heavy stuff. 32 would be comfortable today, and 64 would be future-proof (my 16GB is 6 years old now and I plan to keep the next one as long!).
- towb 6y agoAlright, I have ~120 browser tabs open in FF but most are hibernated. Sometimes I open a lot of tabs in another browser for... ehm... other reasons... Never a problem. And no loading of huge projects in vim. MBP 16" At least we can agree that 8 isn't enough :D
- k__ 6y agoI'm closing my tabs rather often. I'm getting the heebie-jeebies when I have too many open.
- minimaxir 6y agoMy iMac w/ 32GB of RAM hovers at 50% and never goes higher even when doing more intensive tasks.
- mcny 6y agoHow do you do it? Do you have a Sql server, MySQL, or postgresql instance running on your machine? Do you aggressively limit how much memory these servers can use?
- scarface74 6y agoMy work x86 Mac laptop that they gave me last year - from the well known tech company that believes in “frugality” - has 8GB of RAM. As a developer[1], I was at first shocked seeing that I came from a 60 person startup that at least gave me a 16GB Dell. Then I realized that since I have the ability to spin up any imaginable resources I need at the click of a button - or by writing a shit ton of yaml - without having to worry about the company getting a large bill from our cloud provider like I did before, I don’t need to run everything locally. I can just open my own AWS account. That being said, I was shocked I only occasionally experience slowness with VSCode, Slack, Outlook, and Chrome running. Occasionally I will have to use PowerPoint or Word. On the rare occasions that I do need a beefier Linux or Windows environment, I use Cloud9 or WorkSpaces. At home with a 1GB up/down connection it isn’t too bad. I don’t know how inconvenient this will be if we ever start traveling. I was hired post Covid. [1] While I spend most of my time developing, I’m officially a consultant in ProServe. I would hope that the SDEs get something beefier.
- k__ 6y agoI'm kinda OCD-ish about what runs on my systems. Otherwise, I mostly run dev related stuff on remote IDEs.
- tomrod 6y agoI run ML for side hustles. 64GB is a nice stopping point, along with reasonable GPU.
- k__ 6y agoLately, I only use browser apps. AWS Cloud9 and Google Docs is probably where 99% of my work happens.