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What do you need more than 16GB for? Until less then a year ago, I used to have a 4 GB RAM (+ 4GB SSD swap) laptop, used it for everything, including software development (Android mostly). Even ran virtual machines occasionally. It wasn't that horrible.

Now I have a MacBook Pro with 16GB and this amount seems more than comfortable.

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Video and image processing/editing, for starters. Working with large datasets. Running several vms with reasonable memory allocation. Running local DBs. High-end / VR gaming. Etc. I do all of these things daily for both work and pleasure and with 16GB RAM I have run into countless headaches.

Personally I don't use a Mac and could upgrade at any time but I'm waiting out of principle because DDR4 RAM is still seeing exorbitant prices from the shortage.

Right now on my MPB I'm sitting at 14.68GB used with another 3.73GB in swap. Between Chrome, electron-based desktop apps, and Docker containers it's easy to hit that limit. This is just full stack web dev too, nothing rendering related.

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