Someone’s smelling the year of the desktop
Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices
JTskulk@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Do it. I know which OS will run fine on 8G of RAM and which one won’t.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
StitchInTime@piefed.social 1 month ago
I built a gaming PC last year with 32gb, and it’s time to upgrade my MacBook…
So, logically, I just moved my workflow to my desktop. I would say dual boot for the win… but honestly most of my games run great on Linux, so I think I’m just good there until and unless this blows over.
Mondez@lemdro.id 1 month ago
When I dual booted it was to try and get away from the win.
comador@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Minix and FreeBSD…
/runs; hides
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 month ago
They don’t care, my parents laptop was decently mid-range spec bar storage, manufacturer put in a 5400RPM spinning rust drive. It was damn near unusable, crap from the factory.
Was forced to use it once when visiting and noticed the performance, put an SSD in it and it’s been a fine laptop since. They’re perfectly willing to hobble a laptop to save a buck.
sefra1@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
No OS if fine with 8GB if you use it for anything other than browsing memes
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
There’s more than that ?
toddestan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Actually, the web browser is one of the major offenders when it comes to consuming large amounts of RAM.
radioactivefunguy@piefed.ca 1 month ago
In a single tab
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I run fedora on 8GB and find it functional but definitely not comfortable. Anything past a dozen tabs and it starts getting choked up.
antrosapien@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Linux adoption… accelerates
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You’re thinking of CP/M, right?
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Can CP/M address >= 2^32 bytes?
tal@lemmy.today 1 month ago
obsolescence.wixsite.com/…/cpm-internals
CP/M requires a minimum of 20K RAM, although realistically, 48K is the bare minimum. Most systems have the maximum 64K.
Sounds like it can’t address > 2¹⁶ bytes.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
CP/M-86, maybe.
Damarus@feddit.org 1 month ago
I wouldn’t be happy with 8 GB of RAM regardless of OS.
uranibaba@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Same, I am often about 8 GB of RAM with my daily usage.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Debian keeps barfing on me with 16.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 month ago
Heh, I have 64 and still can run out. Teams and Outlook for work, one or two java projects in IntelliJ, rust project in Neovim… try to build and run tests with maven and I’m at 70-80% easily. Couple more tabs like discord and I’m out of memory.
kill_dash_nine@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
What sort of apps are you running?
foggenbooty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nor would I, but if apps were actually optimized instead of the Electron nonsense we have now we’d be in a better place. I really hope this forces us to finally build better again instead of relying on infinite resources.