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Discussion on: Which is the best macbook for programming?

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Christian Vasquez

I currently own the Macbook Pro 13" 2017 with minimum specs: 128GB of storage + 8GB of RAM, and my storage usage is about 80-85Gbs after installing all the tools I use (Rider (.NET IDE), Android Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, VS Code, Docker, MySQL, DataGrip, NodeJS, and other regular apps).

Your concern about 128GBs actually makes sense. Due to college, I need to use some Microsoft tools and using Parallels to have a decent experience left me with about 3-5GBs left of storage (which is about the same if when I tried running other VM players). This is my specific scenario, so I think you should be good if that is not one of your needs.