Same guy also says you shouldn't use Chrome or Slack because they use lots of RAM (I guess it sucks to be the developer that has to use both of these). Apple's new "Pro" machines have similar specs to their three year old pro machines. They are a lot thinner, but that's not a Pro feature.

> A couple apps you won’t see on this list are Chrome and Slack. Both of these applications have widespread reports of being memory pigs, and in my opinion you should boycott them until the developers learn how to write them to play nicer with memory.

I got my 2013 Macbook Pro with 16GB of RAM and I'm happy I did, it has aged well. Will a 2016 MBP age similarly well? I guess we'll find out.

This was probably 10.6 before they dropped Atom support in the XNU kernel or are you using a replacement kernel?

Me too.

I've heard that the SSD drive makes it the XCode experience more tolerable when it has to hit the swap disk. Personally on my iMac without an SSD and 4GB it was unbearably slow, but it improved a lot when I upgraded to 20GB of RAM and no longer had to hit the swap disk.