> I bet that the original 8 GB Second source data I collected from the Steam Hardware Survey (that being a biased group with better that average specs) for 201

> I bet that the original 8 GB Second source data I collected from the Steam Hardware Survey (that being a biased group with better that average specs) for 2012 seems to point that the "average Steam user" had around 5 GB of system RAM. > HDD would be OK for browsing. Browsers got faster and that helps compensating sites that got slower. I just remembered this article (and that article talks about SSDs, not HDDs!) surprising conclusions, posted in HN a few days ago: https://simonhearne.com/2020/network-faster-than-cache/ https://simonhearne.com/2020/network-faster-than-cache/