[rt2016]

Yikes, that's pretty low for local development work. If you were mostly doing remote access to a more powerful development server that might work but for doing anything more serious you'll want to consider at least 8GB. Chrome uses a gig by itself so you're already down quite a bit. Most of my dev machines have been 16GB minimum.

[mattkrea]

This. Around 2.8Ghz core and 16GB ram are standard for us. Occasionally we have to settle for 8GB if that is what all that is available in Apple refurbs.

[markbnj]

I don't care about CPU speed very much, but yeah, 16GB at least for a dev machine. You need something you can run a database on, perhaps an http server + framework, etc.

[mattkrea]

Virtual machines are a killer too. We are primarily web but end up doing more than our fair share of legacy WinForm app updates and that requires a lot of ram if you're going to have at least somewhat of a pleasant experience in VS inside the VM.