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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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Do it. I know which OS will run fine on 8G of RAM and which one won't.
I wouldn't be happy with 8 GB of RAM regardless of OS.
Same, I am often about 8 GB of RAM with my daily usage.
Debian keeps barfing on me with 16.
What sort of apps are you running?
Mostly Firefox with an admittedly ridiculous number of tabs.
Those are load bearing tabs...
Get yourself the ‘auto discard tabs’ extension.
Tbf Firefox seems to have started using much more memory a year or so ago: I could easily hit over 200 tabs, now fifty are a problem. Though it could just be me having switched to the developer edition.
I think my last count hit north of 500 tabs...
I... I may have a bit of a problem...
That's like an order of magnitude more than me. There's gotta be something else going on with my system.
Heh, I have 64 and still can run out. Teams and Outlook for work, one or two java projects in IntelliJ, rust project in Neovim... try to build and run tests with maven and I'm at 70-80% easily. Couple more tabs like discord and I'm out of memory.
I feel that. My new workstation will have 128 GB, I'm very excited about it
Nor would I, but if apps were actually optimized instead of the Electron nonsense we have now we'd be in a better place. I really hope this forces us to finally build better again instead of relying on infinite resources.
Linux adoption.. accelerates
Someone's smelling the year of the desktop
I built a gaming PC last year with 32gb, and it’s time to upgrade my MacBook…
So, logically, I just moved my workflow to my desktop. I would say dual boot for the win… but honestly most of my games run great on Linux, so I think I’m just good there until and unless this blows over.
When I dual booted it was to try and get away from the win.
They don't care, my parents laptop was decently mid-range spec bar storage, manufacturer put in a 5400RPM spinning rust drive. It was damn near unusable, crap from the factory.
Was forced to use it once when visiting and noticed the performance, put an SSD in it and it's been a fine laptop since. They're perfectly willing to hobble a laptop to save a buck.
Minix and FreeBSD...
/runs; hides
I run fedora on 8GB and find it functional but definitely not comfortable. Anything past a dozen tabs and it starts getting choked up.
No OS if fine with 8GB if you use it for anything other than browsing memes
There's more than that ?
Actually, the web browser is one of the major offenders when it comes to consuming large amounts of RAM.
In a single tab
You're thinking of CP/M, right?
Can CP/M address >= 2^32 bytes?
CP/M-86, maybe.
https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/cpm-internals
Sounds like it can't address > 2¹⁶ bytes.