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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)
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[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 83 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Hah, guess they're gonna have to run Linux. Windows 11 would choke on 8 GB RAM.

[–] bananabread@lemmy.zip 20 points 14 hours ago

It's the year of the Linux desktop!

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

I agree, funny enough they require minimum 4 GB, but I had problems with it with 16 GB. 8 GB is nowhere near enough, especially if you use excel, teams, and that crap.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I have to use windows at work, have 32gb and regularly get browser tabs unloaded for low memory. I'm not running VMs or anything. Usually just Firefox, visual studio, and slack.

Personal computer is Linux with 16gb and that's more than enough.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Same here. Modern 32 gb machine from work is a slog. 2 minutes from wake to actually working, can be 10 seconds just to use the start menu sometimes. Older thinkpad with 16gb and linux/cosmic desktop - wakes almost instantly and perfectly snappy for most things.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Most bloated apps like outlook and teams etc regularly use nearly a gig of ram each in my experience. Brutal.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I have single browser tabs that regularly suck down a whole gig. (And they still have input lag).

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

Ya that depends on the content too and what bullshit they load on the background. In this context, these days I look at tabs as apps lol