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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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[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 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.

[–] relativestranger@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago

an 8gb pc with win11 is today's equivalent of running vista on 1gb.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 12 points 3 days ago (2 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 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

[–] Zannsolo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I have 64gb 32 for vm and 32 for host, security software eats it all. I pity the poor bastards on the 8gb work laptops. My project is funded separately from all the others so we got to order our own laptops. Our previous laptops sucked at 32gb total.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days 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 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days 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