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Do people actually need 32G ram though or is it just being obsessed with higher specs? I have an X1 Carbon with 16G. I rarely use 4G memory with a full KDE (+
by emilsedgh 9y ago
Do people actually need 32G ram though or is it just being obsessed with higher specs?
I have an X1 Carbon with 16G. I rarely use 4G memory with a full KDE (+ KMail with hundreds of thousands of emails stored locally), a few atom based apps (Slack, Spotify) and a browser that is always open.
My browser usually has only a few tabs open and I understand that people have browsers with hundreds of windows and full fledged IDE's (I tend to prefer editors).
But 16G, I wouldn't know how to use that much memory.
Even with an IDE and possibly a Windows VM.
- bluedino 9y agoI'm using 12GB in Windows 7, and I'm not even doing any development work (VM's). Firefox, Chrome, Outlook, a couple spreadsheets and text editors, Evernote, Winamp, a couple Putty sessions, IBM terminal...
- cardiffspaceman 9y agoIt's not that I need to do many tasks, it's that this one task calls for lots of RAM, and it's best if I can do it freely instead of only doing it overnight like a batch-mode cave dweller. I have a build that when done from scratch calls upon the linker in such a way, it needs about 12G working set, and it's much faster if that's RAM. It took 'overnight' when I had 8G and if I was present, I could barely do anything else.