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I came to say exactly this. Color me unsurprised that this is the top comment. In what world is 16GB and a mobile i5 "developer orientated"? Makes my head spin.
by samhuk 4y ago
I came to say exactly this. Color me unsurprised that this is the top comment. In what world is 16GB and a mobile i5 "developer orientated"? Makes my head spin.
- tgv 4y agoI must say, I'm surprised that it takes that much memory. I've got a 16GB macbook pro, and it sits at a comfortable 9GB "app memory". I've got one config project open, one pretty large Vue/TS/HTML/CSS project, and two Go projects opened in VSCode, plus Chrome and Firefox, plus Outlook and Teams. And Emacs. I regularly run a Django docker project too, together with DBeaver and PyCharm, and still it doesn't eat up all my memory (although I do close VSCode in that case). Everything is memory hungry, yes, but it doesn't look like I need 32GB. Pricey machine, BTW.
- faeriechangling 4y agoI like to run every OS at once and it takes a little memory although 32gb is plenty.
- tuetuopay 4y agomacOS is very aggressive on memory compression and swap. When I still used a Mac for work, it said 11GB for sure as app memory, with a 40+ GB swap file alongside it.
- varispeed 4y agoI have a similar setup, but on 32GB macbook pro it is using 22-25GB.
- vbezhenar 4y agoI'm using 64 GB MBP and it usually eats all that memory (mostly for caches, but it definitely exceeds 20 GB even for simple tasks like IDE + Safari). I guess applications configure themselves differently according to max memory available.
- xuki 4y agoUnused memory is wasted memory.
- WhyNotHugo 4y agoJeez, and I complain when my IDE gets close to 1GB.
- tgv 4y agoAre you sure that isn’t file cache and such? The OS uses as much of it as it can.
- Zandikar 4y agoI've never understood this complaint that software uses all of the available memory and the implication that that is somehow a bad thing. That's the whole point of memory. To load up as much of the software or user data as possible into a fast-access cache to reduce wait times on paging to storage. I'd be concerned if my applications weren't using all that's available. That'd be a huge waste of money. That's a lot like buying a house then being mad when you actually use all of the rooms.
- vbezhenar 4y agoI definitely don't complain, I'm actually happy that this RAM is not wasted. Just wanted to provide data point which might be interesting for those who think how many RAM they need.
- throwaway81523 4y agoI'm a developer, I'm using a Thinkpad X220 from 2011(?) with 4gb. Any heavy computation I need is done on servers.
- pydry 4y agoIt reminds me of when the linux netbook took off like a rocket in like 2010/11 and then the next year every model was capped at 2GB because microsoft licensing...or something.
- pjmlp 4y agoIn the same world most offshoring devs when they come on site, they bring a Dell or Lenovo i5 with 8GB, everything else is done in cloud instances.
- pjmlp 4y agoAnd me still mostly using a 8GB laptop for my development purposes regarding side gigs. The work laptop does indeed have 32GB, because containers everywhere, which is something I don't use at home or development side gigs.