Anything under 16 GB is unacceptable to me.
Developer edition? Nope, not really. I need Linux, Windows and OS X. So my only option remains, as ever, a macbook pro with 16GB RAM.
If you are OK with running an illicit OSX VM, then a Thinkpad T or X series should be a fine choice if you prefer to run a flavor of Linux as the native OS. Thinkpad native Linux support is better than the macbook pro hardware (no funny fan glitches, etc). It basically "just works" and you can get 16GB's from the factory.
Because you've set very high requirements, as you've stated.
> Developer edition? Nope, not really.
Yes, it still is.
I'm really surprised to hear this; I spent enough years working on a local dev environment to know the pain. Heck, I've seen the bugs that come from it as well.
Now that Docker's around, and you can run a production-equivalent environment on your local machine, I'd never go back to the bad old days.