Hardware for back end programming?

Question

Iron

I was reading old questions on the toaster and saw a question about a 2010 Macbook, the guy asked, they say, "whether or not back end programming will pull, in particular phpstorm other software." They said, they say, 8 GB of RAM is needed, they say everything will lag, etc.
So, will my phpstorm laptop pull, all sorts of test servers and so on (I'm not really rummage in this "slang"). Notebook specs :
I5 3317u
Intel hd graphics 4400
RAM 4GB
Win10

Answer 1

You can "program the backend" on a computer with a Celeron 533 MHz processor and 512 Mb of RAM.

Answer 2

Well, here everyone has said that "it is possible" so far. And I will say that it is impossible. Any IDE (namely IDE, not sublime notepad) will burn at least a gig without choking. AXIS - well, a couple more gigs (we want to follow modern standards, and not install obsolete / obsolete systems?) at least, but in fact more. Browser - and you need it both for testing and for "training" - you are unlikely to limit yourself to 1-2 tabs - a couple of gigs are still safe. Any office utilities and other messengers will finish off your 4 gigabytes already running.
Of course, you can cut yourself down, use a sublime, a lightweight distro (Linux right away), monitor the tabs in the browser and unload all instant messengers ... But will it be comfortable? I would say no.
Throw RAM at least up to 8 gigs, or even immediately up to 16 if the mother pulls, stick in an SSD - and then we can talk about comfortable development.
PS I was not especially lazy, rebooted the computer, looked at the statistics. Starting config - i.e. all messengers, drivers, browser, etc. - WITHOUT ide - 4.8 giga on 10-ke. Make a conclusion.