Re:New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store
by w1ntermute on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @10:24AM
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He might need virtualization, which is essential for any web dev who wants to target the mainstream. You might have multiple VMs up so you can test different versions of IE (no IE 6 on Windows Vista or 7). When you add in Photoshop, Firefox with Firebug, and Apache, you really start pushing the limits of 4 GB.
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Re:New MacBook Air Now Available on Apple Store
by crazygringo on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @01:10PM
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I suppose it depends on what exactly you're doing with the virtualization, but if it's just IE testing, I've found 4GB to be plenty -- performance is fine with small amounts of memory in the virtual machines, which I assume is because their usage of virtual disk-based memory is quite fast due to the SSD.