> although sticking with 8gb in the air seems like they are just sticking to the principle that you don’t need lots of ram I think it's part of the product lin

> although sticking with 8gb in the air seems like they are just sticking to the principle that you don’t need lots of ram I think it's part of the product line differentiation. I do all my development on a macbook air (well, some of the compilation is done on a remote machine, fr code that will run there). It's great: conveniently very light and with plenty of power. Sure, some people need a ton of VMs, but I don't. But Apple points out that if you're a "professional" you ought to be using a "Pro" machine and the RAM is one way they do it.