{"id":3948,"date":"2015-02-13T11:05:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T01:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=3948"},"modified":"2015-02-13T11:05:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T01:05:33","slug":"amounts-of-ram-for-devices-so-that-i-no-longer-have-to-worry-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/13\/amounts-of-ram-for-devices-so-that-i-no-longer-have-to-worry-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Amounts of RAM for devices so that I no longer have to worry about it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think this is my current &#8220;okay, I don&#8217;t have to worry about RAM&#8221; list currently:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phone\/Tablet: 2GB<\/li>\n<li>Laptop: 8GB (although 8GB is better&#8230; 4GB is tolerable IFF SSD)<\/li>\n<li>Development server: 16GB (32GB if shared) (emacs+gcc)<\/li>\n<li>Box for testing things: 128GB (virtualization, databases)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is&#8230; kind of mind bending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this is my current &#8220;okay, I don&#8217;t have to worry about RAM&#8221; list currently: Phone\/Tablet: 2GB Laptop: 8GB (although 8GB is better&#8230; 4GB is tolerable IFF SSD) Development server: 16GB (32GB if shared) (emacs+gcc) Box for testing things: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/13\/amounts-of-ram-for-devices-so-that-i-no-longer-have-to-worry-about-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-11G","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4210,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/30\/failed-retro-emulation-attempts\/","url_meta":{"origin":3948,"position":0},"title":"Failed Retro emulation attempts","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2016-10-30","format":false,"excerpt":"For reasons that should escape everybody, I went back and looked at some old Operating Systems a little while ago: OS\/2 Warp, Windows 3.11 and Microsoft Chicago. 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