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Hate to tell you, but 16Gb is a pretty much minimum now. Running with 32 and looking for 64Gb laptop
by Iwan-Zotow 6y ago
Hate to tell you, but 16Gb is a pretty much minimum now.
Running with 32 and looking for 64Gb laptop
- anthk 6y ago2GB laptop here, I can run several qt5 applications, with Electron I would bring to its knees with just three.
- Fnoord 6y agoRipcord instead of Discord and Slack.
- anthk 6y agoOr a bitlbee gateway + IRSSI.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoYeah if all text works for you doing a bridge through IRC is the way to go. I think weechat also has some add on for discord, slack, and element
- Fnoord 6y agoAny of these is suffice but I thought it was nice adding a mention of a lightweight Qt application.
- Iwan-Zotow 6y agoI can do this but cannot do that at the same time. Having 2Gb is pretty limited
- stef-13013 6y agoYes it is true, but in terms of CPU, there is an issue too... (Lots of sub-processes by apps, means higher context switching, etc.) And If I need 32GB and 16-CPU to run 5 or 6 apps... Asimov was right after all :)
- stockerta 6y agoIn what world? In many parts of the world, the only machine people can afford have 4-8Gb RAM, And those machines cost a month pay.
- ulisesrmzroche 6y agoSo what? This is a business decision. You’re not likely to be a customer so why bother spending the effort?
- johnisgood 6y agoWhy is it the minimum though? Have we ever thought of that? I have 8 GB and it is increasingly becoming a problem and I will have to upgrade just because I want to have a browser and IntelliJ open.
- stef-13013 6y agoYes, It reminds me when Java has been released for the first time. The mantra was : "Yes, pretty slow but don't panic, in a couple of months better hardware will fix that" !!
- pjmlp 6y agoHate to tell you, but 8GB is quite common across IT departments in 2020.
- Iwan-Zotow 6y agoThen people with 8Gb laptops are limited to what they could do. Hardware matters more than people Do you really wants to limit your folks in such way for something like $150?
- pjmlp 6y ago$150 is one month salary in quite a few countries actually. My personal laptop has 8 GB, is 10 years old by now, I am not limited in anything I care about.