I have good gear but definitely not the latest and greatest of everything. My laptop is a macbook pro from 3 years ago. My desktop has an Intel 2600k and 16gb o

I have good gear but definitely not the latest and greatest of everything. My laptop is a macbook pro from 3 years ago. My desktop has an Intel 2600k and 16gb of ram. Both run on SSDs. I use my laptop for work. Rarely have less than 20 tabs open in chrome, which stays open for days/weeks at a time. I've got VMs running and xCode, sublime, ios simulator, bunch of terminals, bunch of node apps, couple corporate sec products and incremental backup software, etc, etc.... Not a single thing is slow about anything. And I'm anal about things being slow. I hate waiting for anything. Its the same on my older desktop, which I also game on. I don't shut down my browser before playing games to free up ram, or kill photoshop, etc. Unused ram is useless ram. Its a problem when you're always out of ram. But get an SSD for the odd times you swap. You won't notice it. But either way, the only time my browser is slow is if I restart it and it loads my previous 20-30 tabs all at once. It'll do its thing for 10-20 seconds then done. I get its a lot of ram but what I don't get is why this is impacting people so much? In this day and age most of what people do is in a browser. And if you only have a tab or two and you're working outside of your browser, and you think your browser is killing your computer? Maybe its time to upgrade or add some ram. You can get 16gb of ram for $50/$60... I abuse my machines with multitasking all day and none of them feel slow because my browser uses too much ram. Both have 16gb.