[DamonHD]

I do have 16GB in my MBA(s), but unless you are running huge DBs or editing big videos, or have hundreds of browser tabs open, or like running huge (Java) virtual machines, etc, then you may never notice the difference between 8GB and 16GB.

[check1234123]

I am a Java developer (unfortunately :)) but I don't think I will be running anything extremely demanding on my personal laptop. I might rent a VPS and ssh into it for a heavy stuff. Not sure about how much it would cost.

[DamonHD]

I like Java, and I squeeze various Java servers and cron jobs etc into 1GB RPis, so there is hope at 8GB!