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8, 16, 32, 64 GB? What Is The Best RAM Size For Frontend Development In 2024?
Ideally 64 GB for most cases. But there are cases where 128 GB will be much better. It’s crazy!
Frontend development, as with every other type of development comes with some requirements for the hardware you use. In this article I’ll tell you how much RAM you should have and why it’s important.
So let’s start with what is RAM. A regular computer comes with many parts, and three are quite important ones for frontend development: processor, RAM and disk.
A Processor
The processor for obvious reasons impacts the speed of your toolset. There are metrics to compare speeds of processors. There is speed, number of cores, speed of one core, speed of all. Worth noticing is that in some toolkits speed of one core is more important than speed of all cores. I like UserBenchmark for that particular cause to compare processors.
It’s also the least exchangeable piece of a system. If you buy a laptop, you are unable to change the processor, so you’ll be stuck with it.
In case of a regular PC you can change it. So if you assemble a PC, it’s good to find a board that supports latest socket for processors, so that your processor is…
