Just to do web development? I regularly go into swap running everything I need on my laptop. Ideally I'd have VScode, webpack, and jest running continuously. I'd also occasionally need playwright. That's all before I open a chrome tab.

This explains a lot about why the modern web is the way it is.

I do think a lot of software would be much better if all devs were working on hardware that was midrange five years ago and over a flaky WiFi connection.