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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)

submitted 2 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] TheWilliamist@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Dell and Lenovo price gouge consumers

FTFY

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I thought I'd be fine, that I'd buy the other 16GB stick later. Now is later, I am screwed. I had to enable the use of ALT-SysRq-f to manually invoke OOM-killer because I often run out of RAM.

8GB just feels like way too little for a new laptop. Well, maybe the absolutely cheap ones, but "mid-range", no.

It's crazy. A bit over a year ago I got a refurbished ThinkPad for €180 with 1x16GB of RAM. Now that RAM costs around €120.

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[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's going to make running anything on Windows rather uncomfortable.

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[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Windows 11 is actually unusable on 8GB RAM

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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

It’s not even going to run chrome my guys

[–] Surp@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Back to windows xp for me!

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