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You're making the mistake of trying to translate individual people's unmet needs with some kind of marketing scoreboard. If you need those things, it doesn't re
by stormbrew 10y ago
You're making the mistake of trying to translate individual people's unmet needs with some kind of marketing scoreboard. If you need those things, it doesn't really matter to you if there's one of you or a million, it's still a problem.
- Spooky23 10y agoNot at all. Hell I work with some poor souls toiling with some Oracle monstrosity that need 64GB of RAM to work. I get it. My employer is massive, these guys literally are 7/200000 people with that need. Even GIS people don't really have it -- most of them are using circa 2012 MacBook pros with windows virtualization. The teeth-gnashing and stream of navel gazing blog posts that you see on many tech forums on the topic is 98% nonsense. If you are in fact the mythical creature who needs a 32/64GB workstation on your laptop, you have a problem unless you make some very significant sacrifices. You need a "mobile workstation" from Dell/Lenovo/HP, and you're essentially giving up major aspects of portability to do so.
- spronkey 10y agoWould you have said the same about 8GB three years ago? Because that's how long these machines have to last, realistically. And I'll bet that 16GB in three years will feel pretty cramped for a lot of higher end users.