It depends on what you are doing. Virtual machines IDEs(NetBeans,Eclipse,Visual Studio) MSSQL Browsers Communication software (Outlook and lync) Remote access

It depends on what you are doing. Virtual machines IDEs(NetBeans,Eclipse,Visual Studio) MSSQL Browsers Communication software (Outlook and lync) Remote access software Password management software They all add up, and depending on how development is done, different programs could be required. On my work computer right now, no single program is using more than 400,000k of ram, but I'm using 13.8GB