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Am I the only one that has been just fine with 8GB RAM? I'm running glassfish, IntelliJ, and serving JS over gulp. I have multiple browsers open with lots of tabs. I also have several other applications running. I have yet to notice a problem with RAM.

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Same here, I can't see how anyone could need 16gb for development, except maybe if video rendering is involved.

Multiple VMs cut into that.

Yeah, or doing builds in side a VM. Gets really slow if the linker / compiler starts swapping etc.

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