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Discussion on: 16GB or 32GB RAM for Web Development?

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Scott Sawyer

I have 64gb and don't regret it at all. Chrome can easily eat up 20gb, with all the tabs I keep open (150 - 200), add Gimp, inkscape, Nautilus, 8-10 terminals, and I am often using more than 30gb. I highly recommend using a desktop, switched from laptops about 10 years ago. Not only does it save money, looking at these two 27" BenQ screens and mechanical keyboard beats any laptop. The whole set up is under $2000 USD and completely silent. Just have an old laptop for meetings.

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Tomi Adenekan

Wow I wish. 😻
But how can you keep track of your life?

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Ranieri Althoff

How do you live with this sh*tload of tabs? Do you even remember what the first ones are about or you just keep opening them over and over again?

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Scott Sawyer
  1. I have two large screens.
  2. Organization.

If I am working on multiple projects at the same time, it can get hairy. Right now I have 11 tabs open to different bitbucket repos, 5 Google sheets 16 documentation tabs, and 64 other tabs. 2 Firefox windows, 4 chrome windows, 7 terminals, 7 images in Gimp, and 2 Inkscape.