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It is plenty. Up until just a week ago I was using a 13" MBP circa 2011. It had less of a CPU, but I was able to put a 256gb SSD and 16GB Ram in it. I still

It is plenty. Up until just a week ago I was using a 13" MBP circa 2011. It had less of a CPU, but I was able to put a 256gb SSD and 16GB Ram in it. I still have the machine and plan to repurpose it because it works great. Of course, the machine your looking at already has the flash storage and you can't upgrade the Ram anymore. So my 2 cents, the machine you are looking at will work fine, but if you can afford it I'd go for a MBP with 16GB Ram. I found that the RAM levels the performance when I have lots of stuff going on and VM's loaded. As for the Iris Graphics, the 6100 and the Pro are pretty decent, they aren't amazing, but decent and if you aren't doing high end Gaming you'll be just fine. I have the Iris Pro and we have some apps that use OpenCL pretty heavily and it actually does ok, not as good as a DGPU but you can still see an improvement, and I still have decent battery life.

avinassh 11y ago
MBP 13" has no 16GB option, only 15" have that :/ I won't be gaming at all.
- MartinRogalla 11y ago
  That is incorrect. I'm writing this on a 2015 13" MBP w/ 16GB.
  - avinassh 11y ago
    Just checked again. Customized MacBook Pros are not available in my country, i.e. India. So, how bad it will be if I go with 8GB one?
    - MartinRogalla 11y ago
      I can't really give a comment on this, since I haven't developed on a 8GB MBP. I think you should just expect a performance decrease once you're running your VMs next to your development setup. If you run XCode with your iOS Simulator next to it, I don't think you'll notice a large performance difference.
    - davismwfl 11y ago
      Its probably not the end of the world. I just suggest it because if you are running VM's and if you are actually doing work with them actively while still using the primary OS too it really makes a difference. For example, I will run services in a VM and then my "remote" application either in another VM or in my main OS to test. Sometimes this is to test across OS boundaries to make sure nothing funky is happening, so I need them to run reasonably decent and not be super sluggish. Having the RAM helps. So its a judgement call, if you do that 10% or less of the time, 8gb is probably totally fine. If you do it 50% of the time, then I'd rethink that personally.

avinassh 11y ago

MBP 13" has no 16GB option, only 15" have that :/ I won't be gaming at all.

MartinRogalla 11y ago
That is incorrect. I'm writing this on a 2015 13" MBP w/ 16GB.
- avinassh 11y ago
  Just checked again. Customized MacBook Pros are not available in my country, i.e. India. So, how bad it will be if I go with 8GB one?
  - MartinRogalla 11y ago
    I can't really give a comment on this, since I haven't developed on a 8GB MBP. I think you should just expect a performance decrease once you're running your VMs next to your development setup. If you run XCode with your iOS Simulator next to it, I don't think you'll notice a large performance difference.
  - davismwfl 11y ago
    Its probably not the end of the world. I just suggest it because if you are running VM's and if you are actually doing work with them actively while still using the primary OS too it really makes a difference. For example, I will run services in a VM and then my "remote" application either in another VM or in my main OS to test. Sometimes this is to test across OS boundaries to make sure nothing funky is happening, so I need them to run reasonably decent and not be super sluggish. Having the RAM helps. So its a judgement call, if you do that 10% or less of the time, 8gb is probably totally fine. If you do it 50% of the time, then I'd rethink that personally.