Despite hardware limits, Parallels supports running Windows on MacBook Neo

"8GB unified memory is the minimum practical configuration."

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[ajmas]

With RAM being obscenely expensive, get ready for software companies to talk about how you can get away with less if it means you'll buy their software.

I'm looking forward to having to rethink of how we utilise resources.

As a dev I've become lazy (out of practicality) and as long as it works well enough I'm not investing more energy than necessary. And no I haven't been profiling my code, unless it involves database and network access. Should I do better: hell yes. Am I going to be given time to do better: maybe?

Typically the approach is: unless someone is complaining or providing constructive feedback, then its considered good enough for most of our scenarios.

 

[ajmas]

It seems you can run MacOS well, or you can run Windows well, just not both at the same time.

But can someone answer: if you buy an external TB drive, can you run Windows without using space on the internal drive? Or use both at different times, both using half of the terabyte? And both using minimal space on the internal drive?

This is certainly a consideration I make.

What needs to be with more on the move and what can I relegate to a docked scenario. With something like a Mini it is easier since everything is essentially permanently docked, but with a laptop that a harder balance to find sometimes.

Portable terabyte drives make that a little easier, but here you'll also need to decide whether your apps can shift there load to be temp file based vs memory based.

It also makes me wonder how much space should/could be made available for swap space, when storage is an SSD?