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Meanwhile my ThinkPad L440 will soon receive an upgrade to 16 GB of RAM. (I wonder if I can get a CPU upgrade to a Core i7)
And developers will make their shitty apps more resource-efficient, right? RIGHT!?
I... ok.
Am I an idiot, or... at least when it comes to system RAM...
Do you really need DDR5 RAM, instead of DDR4?
Like, say I have 32 GB or DDR4 vs 32GB of DDR5.
Beyond I guess crushing some benchmark software harder... what are the actual practical benefits of this?
For an average person?
What can I do with 32 gigs of DDR5 that I can't do with 32 gigs of DDR4? Or 16? Or 24?
The AI snake is finally eating its tail.
That's going to make running anything on Windows rather uncomfortable.
This is not limiting mid-range laptops. This is making more low-range laptops. Just because you’re making more lower tiered laptops doesn’t mean the midrange adjusts as mid-range is based on specs/performance. This is basic taxonomy.
The average laptop produced by these 2 manufacturers will see a decrease in specs.
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.
