For apple, that difference is $200… not negligible I’d say
Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM
accideath@lemmy.world 5 months agoI mean, same. The difference in price for 8GB and 16GB is negligible, especially if you want dual channel on desktops
exanime@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Specal@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s because apple is a greedy grabby company who wants all your money. The easiest solution is to stop buying their products
accideath@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh yea, absolutely. I meant that in regards to the price of memory itself, be it as modules for your desktop PC or the chips itself for soldered solutions. Apple’s markup is bonkers
Specal@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My girlfriends mum wanted to know why her laptop was slow… It was because HP thought that 4gb of ram is acceptable in 2022 (when the laptop was sold). Granted ram wasn’t as cheap then as it is now… Still I paid £30 for a brand new 8gb DDR4 sodimm, there’s not reason hp couldn’t do that. It’s annoying the corners these company cut.
accideath@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My experience is, that 4GB is just about useable for a bit of web browsing and similar stuff. Even on windows 11. I have an old Surface Pro 4 laying around that, in a pinch, works perfectly fine with 11. Of course, it’s not fast. But it’s totally useable.
Specal@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Her laptop just wasn’t having it, windows 11, windows was using 3.7gb ram took about 30 seconds for task manager to open. As soon as I upgraded the ram is was usable.
I checked for any surprising background services or anti virus software and there was nothing really
accideath@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That sounds more like issues Windows would have running on an HDD (or maybe eMMC) instead of an SSD… Bit that wouldn’t explain why it got better, when you upgraded the RAM…