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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)
Dell and Lenovo price gouge consumers
FTFY
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
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lol lets fuck all other computational sciences so that people can generate cats drinking whiskey in robes de chambre.
8 GIGABYTES!!? How am I supposed to load a mouse driver in THAT!?
You don't need to load the mouse driver on your laptop. We have a subscription service for it!
GeForce now
Cool! Is the scroll wheel split into up and down services?
5 cents per scroll. Because pennies are over.
We'll trim it down so the mouse driver only has a little AI.
You can have a little AI, as a treat
Shit, looks like the crazy stock bubble is starting to dwarf and eat into the consumer market instead of just bursting...
Infect everything. Claim you need bailouts because everything has AI in it.
Waaaayyy back in the day Dell had a real bad habit of limiting their low and midrange laptops to pitiful amounts of memory to stratify their product line even though the chipset might support more.
8 GB of RAM would be enough if every fucking application didn't use Electron.
thank you. came here to say this.
or, well, it also doesn't play well with ARM, i.e. on macbooks the ram isn't the bottle neck, its the CPU struggling with electron despite objectively being faster than x86 equivalents.
Or web applications, Firefox/Chrome uses like 32 GB RAM and constantly crashes my computer because of it
Not for me on linux
Back to windows xp for me!
Weird way to spell Linux Mint
I speak on behalf of all IT Support personnel everywhere when I say "fuck you"
"WHY IS IT SO SLOW?!?!?!"
Will they solder it?
They'll solder 4gb. So even if RAM prices go down, you're still effffed
better start removing AI from Windows then... holy fucj my 16gb is barely holding up with windows11 that in forced to use on my work PC. slow as BALLS, it's just raping the entire system performance constantly
I wonder what's going to happen to the electron frontends if machines are bottlenecked by ram so bad. Wasn't facebook just planning to switch whatsapp's frontend to webview as well? And win11's desktop is electron too. Everyone was acting like ram is unlimited.
Don't worry, you'll just need to subscribe to My Windows Copilot Cloud+ to get access to a virtual PC with plenty of RAM from anywhere! It'll be powerful enough you'll barely notice us logging all your actions and blocking anything we don't like.
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What. My six year old cheapo Acer laptop that got my broke ass through college had 16gb ram. My raspberry pi has 8gb of ram.
Large computing will exist solely in the cloud where you will pay a subscription for it. Can't have these grubbing consumers buy anything we elites don't get a monthly cut of.
I wish this was sarcasm.
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Why not just tell me to go fuck myself and skip the unsatisfying foreplay?
Guys this is good news, maybe google and mozilla will figure it out and stop making their applications the biggest ram hogs in human history, taking more ram to render a few documents than it takes to render a AAA game. Or at least stop benchmarking a browser with 1 page open and saying look, 1 page only takes a gig of ram and most users, at least in our imagination, only have 1 page open.
Jk
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