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    16 GB worth it for Video game dev, programming, minor video editing and Others

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by L1qu1d, Mar 3, 2013.

  1. L1qu1d

    L1qu1d Notebook Evangelist

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    Hello!

    I'm considering upgrading my RAM to 16 GB. The main reason is I'm getting into developing with Unity and might make a step into 3DSmax. I mainly use it for programming, gaming, school and extracting files (ranging from 4 GB to 15GB). I do video editing for fun once in a while, nothing too heavy though, because I'm really not that good atm. :p

    My specs are in my signature :)

    Thank You
     
    L1qu1d, Mar 3, 2013
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  2. JohnJacob

    JohnJacob Notebook Enthusiast

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    For the fairly low prices to get 16Gb, I'd say go for it. I have 16Gb because I run a couple of VM's, but have still only hit ~8Gb used!
     
    JohnJacob, Mar 6, 2013
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  3. L1qu1d

    L1qu1d Notebook Evangelist

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    Oh ok, thanks!

    I'm mainly going to be using Unity but it would be nice t do some VM's :)
     
    L1qu1d, Mar 9, 2013
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    Nothing wrong here with just 8gb. 4gb assigned to VMs when they're running VS2012 for W8/WP8 dev, etc. Unity doesn't even require 16gb and can run fine on 4gb systems. Only real benefit would be simultaneous multitasking of several VMs/dev/3D tools at the same time.
     
    adorable, Mar 15, 2013
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  5. L1qu1d

    L1qu1d Notebook Evangelist

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    Ahhhh ok :)

    Oh, how about extracting large zip files? Would it benefit? I sometimes unzip files over 10 GB.
     
    L1qu1d, Mar 16, 2013
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