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Windows 11 bloat proves too much for Microsoft's new 8GB Surface Laptop (www.techspot.com)
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[–] JordanZ@lemmy.world 89 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

According to The Verge, 8GB of memory works mostly fine for basic tasks such as web browsing, text editing, and video streaming on YouTube and other streaming platforms. However, the laptop would hang or freeze "for several seconds" whenever someone joined a video call on Microsoft Teams.

Not surprising. Probably the only Microsoft app more bloated than Windows is Teams.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

I don't think that is an 8GB RAM issue. I had a client last year but a bunch of the new surface pros with ARM chips, and they had similar hangups with 16GB of RAM. Frankly, those things never worked "right", and I think it's a problem with how Windows emulates x86/x64 apps on them.

8GB of RAM is still not great for Windows 11, but I feel like it's a separate issue.

[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 8 points 9 hours ago

Which blows my mind they fucked up teams so badly! It started out as a very lightweight video platform from Skype, running on low end hardware. Then to be more competitive against Zoom, ramped up the garbage until it's practically useless...

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 10 points 13 hours ago

So a perfect streaming platform to make use of the cloud computing that comes after the AI bubble collapses and bunch of data centers need to find new usage.

Probably too cynical take.

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago

I'd say the 10 Chrome tabs were probably affecting memory usage more.