> IMO, it does not make sense to buy any of those new models: whether it's Dell, HP, or else--before we see models with 32Gb of RAM. It's been told here over and over since 2016 when first Touchbar MacBook got released.
What are you doing on an Ultrabook that actually needs 32GB of RAM? Even on my work laptop (Macbook Pro, 16GB), I pretty much never have issues that would be addressed by having 32GB of RAM.
(Note: Just because toph/htop/etc. show >16GB of data in memory, that doesn't necessarily mean your workload would be noticeably impacted if you were limited to 16GB of RAM.)
I my case it adds up: Slack, Docker CE (that spins up a VM on Mac) for tests, corporate Docker EE setup (runs alongside Docker CE), elasticsearch, kafka, and 9 more services inside that corporate Docker setup, two Chromes (Chrome Stable and Chrome Canary), multiple VSCode instances.
And if you need to build something with boost or folly you can add 3GB ram just for that.
I realize that my setup is not common but I'd appreciate to have an option. (Mind you, I'm primarily talking in Mac perspective because work laptop has strict platform requirements.)
Edit: Disclaimer: currently using MacBook Pro 15".
> I my case it adds up: Slack, Docker CE (that spins up a VM on Mac) for tests, corporate Docker EE setup (runs alongside Docker CE), elasticsearch, kafka, and 9 more services inside that corporate Docker setup, two Chromes (Chrome Stable and Chrome Canary), multiple VSCode instances. And if you need to build something with boost or folly you can add 3GB ram just for that.
Sure, but any Ultrabook is going to struggle running all of that, and more RAM isn't going to help by itself. You can run all of that on a Macbook Pro, but not a Macbook Air; the XPS 13 is intended to be comparable to the Macbook Air.
What are you doing on an Ultrabook that actually needs 32GB of RAM? Even on my work laptop (Macbook Pro, 16GB), I pretty much never have issues that would be addressed by having 32GB of RAM.
(Note: Just because toph/htop/etc. show >16GB of data in memory, that doesn't necessarily mean your workload would be noticeably impacted if you were limited to 16GB of RAM.)