4 Reasons to Get 16GB RAM in a MacBook Air for Docker
Regarding the MacBook Air: 1. Docker consumes memory aggressively A few containers plus your editor and browser quickly exhaust 8GB, forcing the system to swap to the SSD.
Swapping slows everything down Once the Mac starts using the SSD as extra memory, performance drops noticeably and the drive wears faster.
The price difference is small Upgrading to 16GB costs little compared to the daily frustration of running out of memory.
8GB still works for lighter workloads If you mostly write Python scripts or static sites, 8GB is fine. Docker changes the equation.