So it remains shit quality even if RAM gets more affordable at some reasonable point in the future.
Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This wouldn’t be much of an issue if most of the laptops nowadays didn’t come with soldered in ram and no options of expanding.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 days ago
ragas@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I boycott those.
tal@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Apparently there are m.2 NVMe drives with DRAM caches.
I don’t know if anyone makes a pure DRAM NVMe drive, but if so, on Linux, you could make the block device a swap partition.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Exactly. Give me two slots and I don’t care if the base model comes with 64kb, that problem will be fixed before I even switch the thing on for the first time.