Android Studio + Emulator + Chrome
I think 8GB is sufficient. Don't need 16.

Try to open a second tab.

@ItsNotMyFault even with 10's of tabs open it doesn't use much more

Fuck, I had Chrome and AS with my phone plugged in, RAM was at 7.2GB (out of 8 :( )

@Dav13 it is... Kinda doable on my 4G laptop after having moved /tmp from being in-memory to a file

Your ram is there to be used.
Don't worry, if dou don't want to fire up anything else large.
While editing videos i get up to 7.5 out of 8 and my pc never freezes/slows down.

Try 10 tabs of YouTube with all of then playing

Yea had a 2gb ram laptop , had to give my junior bro because android studio said I can't f**king use it

On my laptop I can have android studio + emulator + opera (2 windows, 5+ tabs in each window) + vivaldi (also 5+ tabs) + 3 instances of PhpStorm + some other software like Spotify, Slack, Terminator etc. 16GB RAM. Everything goes smooth. only emulator can slow down a little with that much load but I don't work like that. I mean, I can because I checked that but there is no point, obviously.

did you check prices for ram? if not do it now.

Strange, I don't even dare to do that. At work iMac I use has 8GB of RAM and when I have emulator running I better not have anything other than Safari and Android Studio running it will go crazy.

dude try adding skype and you would know what a slow computer is

lightweight dev envs kick ass! that's why i love react native!

@darkpheonix except mine isn't slow... And I use Skype to chat on my gaming rig

If you add more ram, the system will use it. It will use most of the memory it has so i think adding another 8gb should be pretty good :)

I have same setup with 16 GB and it using 10gb ram, Windows optimize memory :)

@jschmold It's a i7 4th Gen 4790K :)

@jschmold No heating problems here at all. I had a choice to buy the 6th Gen too (6700K), but the 4th gen had higher clock and performance. Also, mine isn't even over clocked ;)

Yet mine uses 7GB with only a couple of chrome tabs and nothing else open ??

And that's where you are wrong

*heavy breathing*