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Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices
(www.notebookcheck.net)
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
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Let's see how this plays out with windows 11 π
Swap is a thing. It'll kinda suck, but not as much as it would have pre-nvme. Except that now there's an nvme shortage... and an SSD shortage.
Ugh, I guess I'll just put Windows 2000/ME on there to complete the retro look.
One is good, but slower, the other is more buggy than 98SE, but a bit faster. Not much in common between them other than year.
I don't think that the NVMe shortage is that big of a deal in terms of using it for swap. It's much cheaper than DRAM per GB. You don't need that much.
You could technically boot itβ¦ Not for long, and donβt open anything, but still counts, right?
concidering they were shipping windows 11 systems on 4 gigs of ram and selling it, I expect it won't change much. They worked like shit but they still sold. You make it cheap enough people will buy it regardless of flaws or speed.
Often the people that buy those tiers of computers don't know enough about memory to know how limited they'd be.