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I think we _are_ living in memory constrained spaces on the desktop. For some time now I have found the impetus for upgrading to a new computer has been to g
by Lerc 11y ago
I think we _are_ living in memory constrained spaces on the desktop. For some time now I have found the impetus for upgrading to a new computer has been to gain more RAM. More RAM usually requires changing RAM/DIMM type which necessitates new Motherboard and therefore new CPU. It has been that way since I had a 8 Meg machine.
It boggles me that a machine that could hold six hundred uncompressed 1080p video frames is my most memory constrained computer.
- 0xffff2 11y agoFor what it's worth, I've had the opposite experience throughout my life. I've never actually upgraded to the physical/motherboard memory limits before I end up buying a new motherboard anyway when changing CPU sockets.
- groovy2shoes 11y agoI agree. When I was at university, I bought a top-of-the-line Macbook. Not even a year later, I couldn't even run Eclipse and Firefox at the same time without swapping. Any time I needed to switch from Eclipse to Firefox or vice versa, I wound up waiting a noticeable length of time while the system was busy paging one out of RAM and the other in. I'm on board with Niklaus Wirth: https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf