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Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices
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this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
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My not-terribly-new phone has 12GB of memory, and I'm pretty sure that Android is a lot lighter on memory than the Windows 11 that I suspect a lot of these are going to be running.
That too on ARM. Whereas modern applications on Windows (and Mac, Linux) even on high performance x86 sucks so much. Slack and Chrome are two of the worst pieces of software ever designed by humans.
Don’t worry Microsoft will shove as much agentic AI bullshit into Windows 11 as they can, further ruining performance.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifications
I think that OpenAI has probably kind of bashed a hole in the bottom of Microsoft's boat on the local AI stuff, if 8GB is going to be midrange.
But AI can download RAM.
/s