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Re:New MacBook Pro outsold every competing laptop in just fi... by epalmer on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @01:27PM (#12913104)
My MBP drives a 32in display and these apps open on startup - 3 IDEs (Java, PHP, Python), excel, chrome, firefox, iterm2, sublime, slack, hipchat, oxygenxml, sqldeveloper.

The above open in desktops (Misson Windows). I do not do heavy data analysis. I never run low on memory with 16GB.

Performance is not a problem. I do open 1 VM form time to time and again no problem.

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Re:New MacBook Pro outsold every competing laptop in just fi... by alasdair_ on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @05:44PM (#12915534)
The VMs are a killer. I fairly often wish to debug our mobile app. This ends up involving spinning up both the client and server (which is a collection of VMs) plus both IntelliJ and Unity. 16GB isn't really enough to do this without being very careful about memory.
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Re:New MacBook Pro outsold every competing laptop in just fi... by fpoling on Thursday November 10, 2016 @02:31AM (#12918439)
If VMs are Linux, try to activate zram there, it allows to reduce VM's memory significantly. With typical compression factor of above 2 this allows to shrink VMs by at least 30% with tolerable loss of performance.
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