You want more if you want to run a lot of virtualization from what I've read. So far I'm doing well with 16GB and SSD. A situation that comes up for multiple

You want more if you want to run a lot of virtualization from what I've read. So far I'm doing well with 16GB and SSD. A situation that comes up for multiple VMs was clustering Cassandra. I had several contract projects and I had several vagrant box up and running for each project. https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.resmgmt.doc/GUID-C25A8823-F595-4322-BD0D-4FD5B081F877.html https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.... Hopefully it's that link. Starbuck internet is bad at the moment. edit: That sucks, their last laptop spunik was also 8GB. I thought for sure they're going to push for more since a few developers were asking for it =/.