I use an ASUS ROG G751JL laptop. Intel Core i7 (4th Gen) 4720HQ / 2.6 GHz 17in Screen 500g ssd 1TB HDD 16g ram NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M - 2 GB GDDR5 SDRAM I run VS2015 & SQL Server and some VM's with no problems and can still play a game!

The biggest reason I use Dapper, sometimes I just want to create some POCOs and have them access the db. With Dapper all I need is a connection string and my classes..