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It's kinda weird how little you have to do with 32 GB (!) of RAM until Windows starts to complain about not having enough free memory and you-better-close-some-
by blattimwind 8y ago
It's kinda weird how little you have to do with 32 GB (!) of RAM until Windows starts to complain about not having enough free memory and you-better-close-some-applications-right-now! I remember when a 1 GB memory upgrade was something, and back then I could even play a game on 512 MB of memory and occassionally alt-tab to a web browser for cheats... nowadays a web browser on 512 MB RAM is virtually impossible.
(Edit: I realize this complaint is quite old, but from the age where hundreds-of-MB main memory were mainstream we have seen very little actual improvement in GUI fancyness, yet a massive explosion in CPU and memory use, and often even heavily deteriorated responsiveness. That doesn't hold going from the "couple of megs" to "hundreds of megs" age.)
- astrobe_ 8y ago> nowadays a web browser on 512 MB RAM is virtually impossible. Right now my Palemoon browser uses less than 240Mb. It is possible, just don't do stupid things (like keeping 4385972Z38947 tabs open instead of using bookmarks) or cut out a little the eye-candy and the the "geek status symbol" stuff.