A bit late reply.. but the laptop was just the cheapest laptop I could buy before starting Uni, roughly 4 years ago. I just got my new laptop a couple of days a

A bit late reply.. but the laptop was just the cheapest laptop I could buy before starting Uni, roughly 4 years ago. I just got my new laptop a couple of days ago, and the difference is incredible. The other guy that replied to your comment is basically right. My old laptop had a measly 4GB of RAM, and opening multiple tabs in Chrome for documentation, running an editor, some development tools like REPLs etc, and I'd basically be out of RAM. I would literally listen to music on my phone because spotify consumed too much of my precious RAM, and I had to kill off tabs that I hadn't used for a while like it was Survivor, in order to keep my laptop from start swapping(which means everything grinds to a halt). I even run a very minimalistic window manager and don't use IDEs like IntelliJ or anything.