Re:Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition
by SwellJoe on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @11:55AM
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My laptop has 8GB, which is sufficient for most stuff. But, when I've got a lot of tabs open in the browser, if I open either Android Studio or one or more virtual machines, I start bumping into memory constraints.
In fact, Android Studio shocked me with how large it grows, even for very simple projects (which is all I've ever attempted thus far). And, I moved my Mac OS X and Solaris VMs over to my desktop machine, which has 16GB of RAM and more CPU cores, and I connect to them remotely. Running either would make my machine just sluggish enough to where I'd notice when scrolling or changing windows, etc.
Anyway, I've ruled this machine out, since it seems to max out at 8GB. Otherwise it is very nice, and I have gotten over my grudge at Dell (now that I've tried alternatives and found they're often even worse), so the XPS line is definitely a contender. But, my next laptop is going to have 16GB of RAM.
In fact, Android Studio shocked me with how large it grows, even for very simple projects (which is all I've ever attempted thus far). And, I moved my Mac OS X and Solaris VMs over to my desktop machine, which has 16GB of RAM and more CPU cores, and I connect to them remotely. Running either would make my machine just sluggish enough to where I'd notice when scrolling or changing windows, etc.
Anyway, I've ruled this machine out, since it seems to max out at 8GB. Otherwise it is very nice, and I have gotten over my grudge at Dell (now that I've tried alternatives and found they're often even worse), so the XPS line is definitely a contender. But, my next laptop is going to have 16GB of RAM.