Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices

JTskulk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Damarus@feddit.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t be happy with 8 GB of RAM regardless of OS.

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  • uranibaba@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same, I am often about 8 GB of RAM with my daily usage.

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    • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Debian keeps barfing on me with 16.

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      • kill_dash_nine@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What sort of apps are you running?

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      • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • foggenbooty@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Someone’s smelling the year of the desktop

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  • StitchInTime@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Mondez@lemdro.id ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      When I dual booted it was to try and get away from the win.

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• BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• comador@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Minix and FreeBSD…

  /runs; hides

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• sefra1@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No OS if fine with 8GB if you use it for anything other than browsing memes

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  • toddestan@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Actually, the web browser is one of the major offenders when it comes to consuming large amounts of RAM.

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  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s more than that ?

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  • radioactivefunguy@piefed.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In a single tab

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• CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You’re thinking of CP/M, right?

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  • 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can CP/M address >= 2^32 bytes?

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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