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by __Joker 4123 days ago
I work with 128 GB SSD + 8 GB RAM. I think less RAM is fine, if you have SSD. The swaps, if there is any swaps, will be faster.

Between verify, whether the RAM is upgradable or not.
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equalarrow 4123 days ago
Um..., swaps?!?

This would immediately tell me that I need to get more RAM.

For those wondering, I run the following comfortably in 16GB of RAM with SSD:

Postgres 9.x Ruby 2.x Rails 4.x Python 2.7 / Flask XCode 6.1.1 Chrome Safari Whatever else apps...

I don't think I would trust this in 8GB and feel like I'm productive. Remember, RAM is 10kX-100kX faster than hd, so you can never have enough.

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__Joker 4123 days ago
Obviously each has their requirement. For my workload, I get away with 8 GB RAM. Where I run eclipse( 740 MB ) RAM, sbt with 2 GB RAM, and chrome. And environment is more than snappy enough for me.

At the end of the day, each to his own.

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