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Re:Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results by acdha on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @08:46AM (#13540630)
I've heard a lot of people cite their with as why they need more capacity but most of them go silent when asked to explain e.g. what they can do with 32GB but not 16GB (exceptions were edge cases like someone who worked on a model which was ~20GB), a gaming-class GPU, why Kalby Lake is a requirement, etc.

I'm actually in the camp which would prefer more battery but this seems more like the effects of forum echo chamber reinforcement than anything like a strong trend.

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Re:Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results by swozey on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @02:54PM (#13544383)
32gb vs 16gb for me is the difference between having my local development environment a replica of production EXCEPT massively scaled down vertically and horizontally. Meaning I can still have clustered databases (couchbase, etc) to test against vs having to test against an environment that has zero clustering at all. This might be fine for some, but there are a lot of gotchas that you encounter when dealing with disparate query + index servers that you wouldn't ever run into if you completely wrote code against a single instance.

Sure, this is an edge case but that doesn't minimize my requirements for 32gb of ram. I'll be buying a new laptop next year to replace my 2015MBPr and it will definitely be one that has 32gb minimum. That is, at this point, more important by far than OSX to my workload.

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