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no 32GB option? pass.
by codecamper 6y ago
no 32GB option? pass.
- bouncycastle 6y agoEven 32 is starting to feel cramped nowadays, especially with all those Electron apps, VMs, containers and Intelij incarnations. My next laptop will have 64!
- devn0ll 6y agoSure, but think about it: This means other systems will get 16:10 !! (I cannot type fast enough to sooth my enthousiasm for this!) Some T series, 15 inch, with 16:10 #swoon
- artistsvoid 6y agotwo thoughts a) where does it say this? it says the machine will have 16 GB of ram, nothing about possible bonus upgrades one might be able to get (though maybe you followed some links in the article) b) even if 16 GB is max: whoever it is that "needs" more than 16 GB probably won't go for an ultra light weight (< 1 kg = < 2.2 pounds) 13 inch machine for their use case. Seems like "mobility" is priority number one, not having some multi-tasking maverick
- alex_duf 6y agoI don't know, I find it a bit upsetting that the X1 I bought 8 years ago had already 8G. Doubling every 8 years seems a bit slow. I would like a bit more headroom to future proof it.
- pmontra 6y agoIt's not my use case but I know developers commuting with 13" laptops (weight and size) and connecting them to a large monitor in their office and working with VMs and containers. 16 GB is the minimum, 32 GB is the best option.
- paulie_a 6y agoI just got an xps 13 and decided to go to with 32 gb I may not desperately need it now but figured to future proof it for the nominal upgrade price. this laptop is going to last quite a while for me so might as well make it worth it.
- stevesimmons 6y agoI got an XPS13 a month ago. Love it... Nearly ordered the 32GB RAM model with 1TB SSD and the 4k touch screen. Here in the UK that meant a special order and a three week lead time. Then Dell had a flash sale on the non-touch 16GB model, with 14% off, an extra 5% via a cashback site's affiliate link, and next day delivery. So all in all, I got a machine that is nearly as good nearly all the time, for 60% of the top spec price. I figured by the time I really do need 32GB, I can sell it and buy a top of the range AMD-based Dell or Lenovo.
- diffeomorphism 6y agoWouldn't you want something more powerful for that? Combining 15W cpu, ultralight, small form factor (constrained thermals) with 32GB for VMs and containers seems like a bad fit.
- nobleach 6y agoIt's fine for running Kubernetes locally and IntelliJ. Chrome tends to be the HUGE offender in my setup. It can chew through so many Gigs just due to open tabs. The processor rarely is my roadblock. It's always memory.
- thenachi 6y agoYou don't need a strong processor for VMs, just a lot of cores. And AMDs U processors can have upto 8 cores and upto 16 threads on their 15W ULV parts.
- hknapp 6y agowhat are you doing with an ultra book that would make it need 32gb of ram?
- bitwize 6y agoRunning Slack.
- philliphaydon 6y agoOr chrome. Need 64gb option to run both.
- whatch 6y agoOr Firefox. (writing this from Firefox on Thinkpad with 16GB of RAM)
- fernandotakai 6y agofunny thing: firefox is using ~433mb of ram with ~15 tabs (including gmail, graphql playground, youtube). slack alone is using 300mb. discord is using another 300mb.
- philliphaydon 6y agoI just checked mine my slack because I thought 300mb was too low for slack, mine is using 68mb, it used to chew like 1gb... Did they optimize it or something.
- iso1631 6y agoNo optimisations here: Slack is using VIRT: 24.868g, RSS: 1.919g, SHR: 526924 Next highest single process is Firefox with 1G RSS and 5G Virt. I have 113 tabs open at the moment, although there's about 4G of RSS in "Web Content" processes which are firefox related.
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- x87678r 6y agoSurely when you get to that size you get a normal-sized laptop, or an internet connection and an ec2 server.