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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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Or more realistically be used as an excuse for always online cloud based services a la office 365. "We would let you download the app, but most users don't have the computing power so instead we'll just make this a helpful subscription!"
Idk, trying to load up a couple spreadsheets in Edge is going to consume 8gb of Ram in no time.
"Oh don't worry, you won't have to actually load spreadsheets anymore, just give our AI full access to your files and it will do whatever you ask :)"
Ideally, you're correct though and companies start investing in optimization. I don't see it going that way, but a girl can dream.
That would still pressure the browser teams to work on memory optimizations.
Oh fucking hell...
Honestly, it'll be more efficient to have memory in a datacenter in that hardware in a datacenter will see higher average capacity utilization, but it's gonna drive up datacenter prices too.
Not sure I agree. Centralizing storage, and especially memory, creates incredible round trip costs.
I mean, efficient in terms of memory utilization, like. Obviously there are gonna be associated costs and drawbacks with having remote compute.
Just that if the world has only N GB of RAM, you can probably get more out of it on some system running a bunch of containers, where any inactive memory gets used by some other container.
But imagine the latency and network bandwidth issues, there's a reason most companies moved away from the huge central framework model to distributed computing
As a dirty commie, I agree, but unfortunately under capitalism it is just an avenue for exploitation. Large companies are deciding what we can or cannot have access to and setting the price for it in a manner completely divorced from what they're offering.