Is the 16G memory of the beggar version enough for daily development?
by Poster
Mar 19, 2025
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Friends, please ask:
Do python and java backend development, pycharm and intelliJ (choose one of the two, depending on which project you are working on at that time);
Open more than a dozen browser tabs every day;
Middleware such as the database is on another server, and only the datagrid client is opened locally;
Open a few more wps documents and a few ssh terminals;
There is no need for games, video editing, and local large models.
In such a usage scenario, my current windows 16G is acceptable. If I buy a mac mini, do I need to upgrade the memory to 24g or 32g?
As for the hard disk, 256 is definitely not enough. I plan to buy another Thunderbolt 4 hard disk box with an external 1T plug-in. Anyway, the mac mini does not need mobile office. So there's no need to upgrade to 512, right?
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Anonymous3907 Mar 19, 2025Almost all the hundreds of people who developed 16g in the company were complaining that there was not enough memory and asked the company to replace it with a mackbook with higher memory, but the company was stingy and refused to replace it
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Anonymous60 Mar 19, 2025That's enough, it's okay
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Anonymous9473 Mar 19, 2025I don't think it's enough. As long as I hesitate 16 or 32, it means it's not enough. Unless the budget is too tight
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Anonymous3279 Mar 19, 2025It is enough not to open the virtual machine emulator
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Anonymous888 Mar 19, 2025It's enough. I've been using this configuration for many years. It shouldn't be a problem not to open so many browser tabs and background software. I only saw mac prompt that there was insufficient memory on a test computer. He opened a few jetbrain ide, and then the browser opened many windows, each window had dozens of tabs, and also opened Electron software such as postman..
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Anonymous3136 Mar 19, 2025It's enough, and now pycharm and idea can limit memory usage. After limiting it, you will find that it will not affect usage. The memory strategy is to use memory as much as possible. There are many things you can't use, but they are loaded into memory.
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Anonymous11010 Mar 19, 2025The memory scheduling mechanisms of mac and pc are different. Of course, the more memory in win, the better. Starting with 32g 16G + 512 is enough, the hard drive swap speed of mac is not the same speed as win. Don't listen to what bala bala! The best solution is to buy a Mac mini4, and then replace it with a larger hard drive, instead of hanging the bottle.
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Anonymous1817 Mar 19, 2025https://i.imgur.com/ToN7w46. png front-end development, you can refer to it
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Anonymous11011 Mar 20, 2025The best way is not to worry about it, just go directly to the official website to place an order to buy a 16g mac mini, try it out for 14 days, put all the environments you can use, look at the memory pressure, it can still be used if it is yellow, and it will increase the memory if it is red!! If it doesn't work, then retreat. All people's usage scenarios are very different!!!
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Anonymous8944 Mar 20, 2025That's pretty much what I'm doing right now. It will definitely work, but I dare not install more plug-ins in IDEA. If there are too many web tabs, there will be a delay in switching. The memory pressure is always yellow, even when the swap is not high. I don't know why (probably the memory is compressed and decompressed too frequently). I dare not open a virtual machine/Docker at all, so I can only use the one on a remote server. Otherwise, the memory pressure can reach red. Overall, it's not pleasant to use...