To your last point, I literally just counted after reading your comment without changing anything. I have 68 tabs open in Chrome (over four windows, two each in

To your last point, I literally just counted after reading your comment without changing anything. I have 68 tabs open in Chrome (over four windows, two each in two different profiles), and this is fairly representative of my usage since my laptop was last rebooted (19 days and change) and I have had zero issues. Counterpoint: I have 16 GB of memory in this computer. Counterpoint to my counterpoint: I have had Emacs running the entire time as well, and IntelliJ running most of the time (it periodically freezes after monitor connect/disconnect events and has to be restarted).