Apple MacBook Air 8GB RAM

I don't own a lot of things, so it has to be my MacBook Air 2013. It's not a particularly powerful machine (with 4 GB of RAM I try to avoid using things like Slack), but it's been serving me well for the past 4 years. I've tried installing Arch Linux, Ubuntu, and now NixOS on it and all of those worked quite well for my needs. (Mostly Haskell and Rust stuff).

i’ve had the 16gb ram macbook air for 3 years now and it’s still an incredible machine considering lightness, battery, and passive cooling.

My substantially more privileged, but somewhat equivalent experience, was doing mobile app development, Docker, linux VMs, UI design, and finding out about hacker news on an 11 inch MacBook Air with 4gb of RAM. i have a computer that benchmarks literally 10x faster and with 32x the amount of RAM, but i miss that little thing that helped me build my career from nothing

My first experience developing for .NET on a non-Windows OS had me running Visual Studio & SQL Server Management Studio in a Parallels virtual machine (VM) running on a Macbook Air with only 8GB RAM, targeting .NET Framework. My most recent non-Windows experience had me running JetBrains Rider & DataGrip natively in macOS on a (Intel, non-Apple silicon) Macbook Pro with 32GB RAM, targeting .NET 6. The experiences were night and day: while my first experience was serviceable, my most recent experience was great & comparable to the work I'm currently doing in Visual Studio 2022 & SQL Server Management Studio 2019 in Windows 10 on a Lenovo Thinkpad w/ 32GB RAM, targeting .NET 7. And the macOS laptop + multi-monitor experience on a Macbook Pro is so nice that I absolutely prefer coding on Macs now instead of Windows.

2013 MacBook Air, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD, stock. We use it for “normal stuff”, but about a year ago I used it for web dev work for about a month (no docker). It worked fine for that other than the day I decided to try out nixos I was also remote pair programming, so screen share, video call, and web dev work.