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		djsumdog on Oct 27, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MacBook Pro For 11 months when I was backpacking, I did all my development on a laptop with 16GB of ram: http://penguindreams.org/blog/msi-ws60-running-linux/ Scala development, and some devs ops stuff that required spinning up VMs. I mean not a lot; like 6 ~ 8. At work, I use a 16GB ram laptop, Scala development an no VMs (we do everything in Docker and deploy to Mesos/Marathon). I do have a desktop at home now with 32GB of ram, but it honestly feels like overkill and I may scale down. There is a lot of dev work that does require a pretty beefy workstation, but I've been doing HD video editing, Photoshop/Lightroom and Scala/Java work on laptops for years.

teacup50 on Oct 27, 2016 [–]

You're literally wasting money and your brain by forcing yourself to work on downsized hardware.

Studies are consistent here.

Time you spend waiting? Distracts you from your tasks, overall focus drops -- you're dumber.

Less screen real-estate? More working memory dedicated to what's not on screen -- you're dumber.

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