My phone was manufactured in 2022, cost under USD250, and has 8gb of ram. New phones generally come with 12gb or more.
Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM
Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 months ago
8GB RAM is what my phone has.
Having that in a laptop shows what they think of people buying their kit. They think you’re only buying it so you can type easier on Facebook.
macrocephalic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
TBF 8gb of ram on a phone is actually psychotic. You really shouldn’t be doing all that much on a phone lol.
IthronMorn@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Then what should I be doing on my phone?
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Obviously using it as a thin client for this MacBook, duh.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
nothing that requires 8GB of ram lol.
I’ve played the entirety of java minecraft on an old thinkpad with 4GB of ram. It didn’t crash (i dont use swap)
There literally shouldn’t be anything capable of using that much memory.
greedytacothief@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Is this bait? Because like, you could be rendering, simulating, running virtual machines. Lots of stuff that aren’t web browsers also eat ram
IthronMorn@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
What about running a chrooted nix install and using a vnc to connect to it? While web browsing and playing a background video? Just because you don’t use your ram doesn’t mean others don’t. And no, I don’t use all my ram, but a little overhead is nice.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Yeah, but if you have plenty of RAM on Android, there’s a chance those apps you left in the background will still be running when you go back to them, rather than doing the usual Android thing of just restarting them.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
yeah i get that, but i often only have like 2 apps open on my android phone. And even if you didn’t have enough ram there’s no reason android can’t cache old apps to page file or something. Then you don’t need to restart them, just load it from page. Given how fast modern phone storage is likely to be, this should be pretty negligible.