Is there a point in having 32gb of ram in a laptop right now?

Depending on what you are developing.

I quite often need to run two debug sessions with AutoCAD simultaneously. That requires a lot of memory.

20 maybe or even 24, but 32 sounds like an overkill. I got 16 and i get close to usage of 12 quite often.

VMWare.

More than having 32gb of overall memory storage.

#TrueStory

I have 32 GB in my laptop but I run multiple vm's simulating various things from MS SQL servers to whole infrastructure

Running a Java dev-vm on it while using chrome

Is there a purpose? Yes.

Why? What's the purpose? Because I can.

Some psychologists might call that penis envy.

Machine: Dell laptop, I7 (quad core, of course), 32gb, 1TB solid state drive, 2GB NVidia video card. Tried to get the better 8GB video card, but the helpdesk dept caught on to us 'building' gaming laptops.
Gary: "Wow..why do you guys need an 8GB NVidia video card?"
Me:"WPF is rather video intensive."
Gary:"Hmmm...wait...you guys play Star Wars Battlefront...nooooo....we're not subsidizing your juvenile game playing on company equipment. At least pick a decent game, like world of warcraft or one of the Battlefield series..geez."
Got too greedy.

Chrome :D

32 is slowly becoming the standard for Dev-class machines. More memory = less swap woes

I guess it could have a point, the more, the better, like it's the case about the CPU...

But hey, most of the time, it's just greedyness, and more 'classic' setup are perfectly OK.

Few days ago I was watching a Stream about Northgaard, the next game of Shiro Games, there was a point on the compilation time of the whole project. And in the worst case, it was < 20s, on an alpha new target of Haxe and on a (very) old Intel q6600.

Just to say, very few people really need such specs, I guess :)

Xcode...

I run 32 in mine, but that's with a quad-core i7 and a quadro GPU. I sometimes have to do video and photo editing and Adobe loves ram...

Is there a point to love?

What is the purpose of a child's laughter?

Do we question a rainbow?

Why?

It is not our place to ask why.

We are programmers.

Find a use for it. Exploit it for evey byte you can get out of it. Then complain that you need more.

Yes. Do you run docker with 10 containers or so? Then you may need the ram.

64 here. Multitasking, Docker, compiling in tempfs. Chrome.

Anything that runs Java. (Rant!)

Then I'm usually playing with Steam on the other monitor, 4k all max settings. So that whole array fluctuates between 10-25. If I have a background PyCuda job running it'll push right up to 50. My thought was if the slots were there and the memory wasn't a bank buster why not.

@nerd-san This may well be the most beautiful thing i've heard in a while.

@nerd-san how did I miss this one earlier?! I wouldn't have even posted. ++1, Sir.

3.2 GB RAM. That's what happens when your dad (who knows your gaming habits are w curse) buys you a laptop for uni when he KNOWS you won't be doing anything intensive in the course. i3. 3 years on and I'm still playing only a quarter of my games library, all of which on the lowest settings. At least nethack has all the space it needs.

Too much is never enough

@aralum Damn beat me to it 😅

The more the merrier

@slinavipuz that's the Linux philosophy. Unused ram is wasted RAM. I might recompile today and check out the new random memory stuff/nothing at all has a fixed address. One part of me says don't touch a working PC, the other half is Tim Taylor saying, "more power, {{famous grunts}}"

@stable-penguin computer is like a penis. The bigger it is the happier one gets. Doesn't matter if one does not use it :)

@slinavipuz bad time to mention that I took the same approach to my car?

The computer is figuratively supercharged, but the car is physically. I guess GM let the engineers run the project and they went crazy. Imagine if our jobs were all like that??! you build it first for you and second for the user 😜