With DDR5 RAM prices skyrocketing, some mid-range laptops could soon ship with budget-level specs. TrendForce expects companies like Dell and Lenovo to stock more notebooks with 8GB of memory. These reasonably priced options may no longer handle intense office and gaming tasks.
For a typical browsing/youtube/office laptop user this is going to be enough. For the rest of us - fuck us I guess.
From my experience in IT, even those people use up all their RAM on browser tabs. Any user I support that has 8GB is complaining of poor performance.
Its going to be netbooks all over again
My work computer has 32 gigs, it’s the only computer in my home with Windows on it. If I sit with teams and a browser open it’s sat at 12,2GB.
You can’t measure memory consumption like that. You could run the same shit with 8 GB and it’d be using like 6 or 7 I bet.
Operating systems use spare memory to cache things for faster access.
Windows does a poor job at faster access.
True. My typical W11 usage is to start the computer, tell copilot to fuck off 10 times and then reboot to Linux. Maybe I can do that with 4 gigs too
Depends on the the type office work.
If you use excel heavily with large datasets or say data vizualization software like PowerBI and Tableau, 8GB is definitely not going to be enough.
That being said, my grandma has an a 6GB RAM Windows 10 machine and it works fine for her relatively resource-lite use cases.