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		d3nj4l on Jan 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tart: VMs on macOS using Apple's native Virtualiza... I've used both IntelliJ and vscode on significantly sized projects on an 8GB MBA with no issues. It's not as fast as with 16GB, but it's definitely not unusable.

foofie on Jan 20, 2024 [–]

> It's not as fast as with 16GB, but it's definitely not unusable.

I'm sure it varies with how large your projects are. To me the impact was serious enough to force me to shift my development work to a crappy minipc from Beelink.

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