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Interesting.

For comparison, I have exactly the same MBP mid 2014 15" with 16GB.

As I type I have Slack, IntelliJ (with large Scala project), VSCode, Spotify and Chrome with plenty tabs open, and sitting comfortably at ~7 GB.

I think the difference is that you will be using pagefiles while the 32GB one will not.

Currently using 18.1GB/64GB of ram with Rstudio, Docker, Discord, Many chrome windows open. Was just about to hit the "buy" button yesterday but being that ram-constrained in the era of electron-based apps seems like it's pushing it.

You should run Slack in Vivaldi/Chromium, that should save some memory usage.

Interesting. I have been doing development with Xcode (plus some with Visual Studio Code) on a 2017 mbp with only 8 GB and it hasn’t been terrible, or at least the RAM hasn’t been the bottleneck.