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Depends what you using it for I regularly get thrashing on my works 16gb dell and that's without any vms running and not using the full office suite. If your a
by walshemj 5y ago
Depends what you using it for I regularly get thrashing on my works 16gb dell and that's without any vms running and not using the full office suite.
If your a journalist tapping out a column and only using one application at a time yes 8gb will work for you.
- marcinzm 5y agoIn my anecdotal experience Windows/PCs require decently more ram than OSX/Macs for the same perceived performance. My Macbooks were always fine with 16gb but I had to upgrade my Windows machine to 32gb despite using the Macbooks for much more involved workloads.
- nindalf 5y agoI'm not a journalist. Compiling with npm, cargo, go - all of it works well. Also run Chrome in the background. But on this particular laptop, others have run video processing/other compute/memory intensive tasks and it's held up well.