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The experience I've been reading is the opposite: that folks can do web development in a Macbook Air and love it. What do you use 16 GB of RAM for?


I'm always running Redis and Mongo and Memcache and Postgres and Xcode and the iOS simulator and Mail and Skype and etc...

Local server stack + dev tools + collaboration tools, essentially.

SSD helps, as swapping fast is better than swapping slow, but best is not swapping at all.




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