Why is Android Studio so damn hardver demanding?

Question

My laptop has 4GB RAM and a Pentium B950 CPU it runs Visual Studio pretty well but for Android Studio... not only it takes a long while to load it freezes extremely easily (and I'm not even using the emulator).
On my desktop (8GB RAM, I3-6100 CPU) it runs perfectly.
Why is it so hardver demanding compared to Visual Studio? Is it badly written or there's something else behind that?

Answer 1

As developing apps gets easier, requirements get higher. 8 GB RAM is officially recommended for Android Studio.

Answer 2

4GB is not optimal for Android Studio

Answer 3

i use android studio
which lags substantially
but the only thing that never worked was the emulator because i need a higher graphics card

Answer 4

Unity , capable of making Android apps , runs perfectly but on same device Android Studio doesn't .

The reason is hard to tell

Answer 5

ha-ha I have HP notebook 2Gb ram and AMD E1 1300Mhz