8GB, works quite well, until you get into the business of virtual machines/docker or running heavy IDEs like Jetbrains. My 16GB machine was doing quite great wi

8GB, works quite well, until you get into the business of virtual machines/docker or running heavy IDEs like Jetbrains. My 16GB machine was doing quite great with the a huge number of programs and services running in the background but a few docker containers running in the background pushes memory consumption close to 15GB or so. I would suggest that you throw in a cheap stick of RAM and upgrade your laptop, or buy a laptop that allows RAM upgrades.