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

• Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That would still pressure the browser teams to work on memory optimizations.

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• EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh fucking hell…

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• CCMan1701A@startrek.website ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Idk, trying to load up a couple spreadsheets in Edge is going to consume 8gb of Ram in no time.

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  • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Oh don’t worry, you won’t have to actually load spreadsheets anymore, just give our AI full access to your files and it will do whatever you ask :)”

    Ideally, you’re correct though and companies start investing in optimization. I don’t see it going that way, but a girl can dream.

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Honestly, it’ll be more efficient to have memory in a datacenter in that hardware in a datacenter will see higher average capacity utilization, but it’s gonna drive up datacenter prices too.

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  • Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not sure I agree. Centralizing storage, and especially memory, creates incredible round trip costs.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean, efficient in terms of memory utilization, like. Obviously there are gonna be associated costs with having remote compute.

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  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But imagine the latency and network bandwidth issues, there’s a reason most companies moved away from the huge central framework model to distributed computing

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  • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As a dirty commie, I agree, but unfortunately under capitalism it is just an avenue for exploitation. Large companies are deciding what we can or cannot have access to and setting the price for it in a manner completely divorced from what they’re offering.

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