But if you spent the same amount of money on your dev system adjusted for inflation, of course, then it could probably handle everything you could throw at it.
It's ridiculous that we've relied on hardware to save us and that we do more and more every day. We clap our hands at a bit of text and some pictures on a screen taking hundreds or thousands of megabytes of memory. This incredible ineffecincy means that computers cost more than they should, not as many people have them as could, that we spend more resources than necessary to make them and more electricity to run them than we need to. Why don't programmers generally understand how incredibly wasteful we are with the resources we've been given.
It's only true if a handful of apps do it, but if everyone starts to do it then you end up with a scenario where RAM isn't enough for every application.
And also from an end user perspective, not everyone has a powerful dev machine.
