Comment

Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM

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.

source

Sort:hotnew top

Specal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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

source
- accideath@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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…
  
  source
  - Specal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s not worth trying to understand windows ram usage, it will drive any same person insane. The laptop uses intel optane as it’s main drive, which is slower than an SSD but much much lower latency so should actually be perfect for the job of being swap. But it shit the bed.
    
    source