Just because you can get away with 8 does not mean you should. Go google around and find just how cheap an additional 8 gb of laptop RAM is these days.
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steventrouble@programming.dev 2 months ago
I disagree with this article. I do all my development on the cheapest macbook air (M1 with 8GB of RAM). It was $500. I’ve never noticed performance issues, and I work on some absolute monsters of projects, including game dev. It works waaaay better for Rust and TypeScript dev than my $3k Dell (fuck Dell), because unlike my Dell laptop it doesn’t crash every 3 hours and the battery lasts longer than 30 minutes.
sabin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 2 months ago
But can it compile UE4 from source?
Cheems@lemmy.world 2 months ago
sure it could! It would just take two weeks!
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 2 months ago
But not with the default option of using as many threads as there are CPU cores.
PlexSheep@infosec.pub 2 months ago
By any chance, does that dell run windows?