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Will 8gb ram be enough for 4 years of programming? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by Nickator_Boi@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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I was planning to buy MBA m1 and the 16gb ram is like nearly double the price of the 8gb ram in India. I only wanna do web development and dsa and nothing else for the next four years till my engineering ends(3years from now) and a bit more after till I can afford another better laptop. I've heard in some years the 8gb ram will be a bottle neck but, so someone please tell me what I should do, if I should just switch to some windows option instead

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[–] somethingclassy@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

No. You will not be able to run much. Definitely not anything docker-based. Containerization is computationally demanding.

[–] whattteva@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Depends on what kind of development. If it's Xcode and you plan to use the simulator, the answer is a simple NO. Xcode and the iOS simulator are very heavy.

[–] amw3000@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

What is the hardware requirements of the software you plan to use?

Memory/RAM upgrades are insanely expensive everywhere, which is why I strongly urge people to really make an educated purchase instead of just randomly thinking 16GB is OK.

[–] badger_flakes@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah