• Specal
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    1 year ago

    And here I am, putting 16gb in every machine I work on because it’s so damn cheap there’s no reason not to future proof

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      1 year ago

      I mean, same. The difference in price for 8GB and 16GB is negligible, especially if you want dual channel on desktops

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        1 year ago

        My girlfriends mum wanted to know why her laptop was slow… It was because HP thought that 4gb of ram is acceptable in 2022 (when the laptop was sold). Granted ram wasn’t as cheap then as it is now… Still I paid £30 for a brand new 8gb DDR4 sodimm, there’s not reason hp couldn’t do that. It’s annoying the corners these company cut.

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          1 year ago

          My experience is, that 4GB is just about useable for a bit of web browsing and similar stuff. Even on windows 11. I have an old Surface Pro 4 laying around that, in a pinch, works perfectly fine with 11. Of course, it’s not fast. But it’s totally useable.

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            1 year ago

            Her laptop just wasn’t having it, windows 11, windows was using 3.7gb ram took about 30 seconds for task manager to open. As soon as I upgraded the ram is was usable.

            I checked for any surprising background services or anti virus software and there was nothing really

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              That sounds more like issues Windows would have running on an HDD (or maybe eMMC) instead of an SSD… Bit that wouldn’t explain why it got better, when you upgraded the RAM…

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                1 year ago

                It’s not worth trying to understand windows ram usage, it will drive any same person insane. The laptop uses intel optane as it’s main drive, which is slower than an SSD but much much lower latency so should actually be perfect for the job of being swap. But it shit the bed.

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          1 year ago

          That’s because apple is a greedy grabby company who wants all your money. The easiest solution is to stop buying their products

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          1 year ago

          Oh yea, absolutely. I meant that in regards to the price of memory itself, be it as modules for your desktop PC or the chips itself for soldered solutions. Apple’s markup is bonkers

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      1 year ago

      I just slap in 32GB on every computer I build because the MoBos can take 128GB and anything less feels cheap and silly.