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A comment on Ask HN: Is 16GB enough for Software Engineering (M1 13“ MacBook Pro)?.

Re:Ask HN: Is 16GB enough for Software Engineering (M1 13“ M... by duiker101 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @06:32AM (#25057482)
I am on MBP mid 2014 15". It has 16GB of DDR3 memory. With just Slack, IntelliJ(not even doing anything), and Chromium browser I'm sitting at ~10GB. There is no way I would ever buy a laptop on which I intend to work with, with less than 32GB.

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Re:Ask HN: Is 16GB enough for Software Engineering (M1 13“ M... by amzans on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @08:45AM (#25058324)
Interesting.

For comparison, I have exactly the same MBP mid 2014 15" with 16GB.

As I type I have Slack, IntelliJ (with large Scala project), VSCode, Spotify and Chrome with plenty tabs open, and sitting comfortably at ~7 GB.

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Re:Ask HN: Is 16GB enough for Software Engineering (M1 13“ M... by arvinsim on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @10:13AM (#25124617)
I think the difference is that you will be using pagefiles while the 32GB one will not.
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Re:Ask HN: Is 16GB enough for Software Engineering (M1 13“ M... by ixacto on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @01:08PM (#25060954)
Currently using 18.1GB/64GB of ram with Rstudio, Docker, Discord, Many chrome windows open. Was just about to hit the "buy" button yesterday but being that ram-constrained in the era of electron-based apps seems like it's pushing it.
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Re:Ask HN: Is 16GB enough for Software Engineering (M1 13“ M... by sexy_seedbox on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @07:07AM (#25057673)
You should run Slack in Vivaldi/Chromium, that should save some memory usage.
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Re:Ask HN: Is 16GB enough for Software Engineering (M1 13“ M... by ch460399 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @07:30AM (#25069101)
Interesting. I have been doing development with Xcode (plus some with Visual Studio Code) on a 2017 mbp with only 8 GB and it hasn’t been terrible, or at least the RAM hasn’t been the bottleneck.
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