title: Performance impact of IntelliJ IDEA vs NetBeans?
body: <p>So, recently I've resumed my studies (2nd year HS) and in this year we'll be using Java as the primarily language for everything; I've been using Java independently for about a year and I love IntelliJ, however our teacher just <strong>refuses</strong> to even take a look at it, just demands to use NetBeans, regardless of the several <em>technical</em> arguments I've had with her.</p>
  
  <p>She argues that it's because the computers are fairly old and crappy (which they are) but with that in mind, is that really a meaningful argument to give?
  My ASUS laptop can handle IntelliJ pretty well with 16GB of RAM, as you can see here:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/jEZpN.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/jEZpN.png" alt="task manager"></a></p>
  
  <p>However, due to some weird installation problems I can't personally test NetBeans (yuck), and I'm not a fan of downgrading my RAM to 4GB (The capacity of the school's computers).</p>
  
  <p>So my question is, would the performance impact of IntelliJ be substantial enough to justify the use of NetBeans, even though IDEA it's (In my opinion) a much better IDE?
  And if so, wouldn't something <em>lighter</em> like Eclipse make more sense?</p>