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> The only real issue with it is that the current generation of their smartphones doesn't come with enough memory. Only 8GB (S22) or even 6 (S21FE). You need mo
by bzzzt 4y ago
> The only real issue with it is that the current generation of their smartphones doesn't come with enough memory. Only 8GB (S22) or even 6 (S21FE). You need more for decent multitasking.
Since we're fantasising about future computers I hope there won't be more than 8Gb necessary to multitask. I remember running Windows and Office in the 90s on 16Mb. Seems like the 1000-fold increase in memory was mostly negated by wasteful software engineering...
- vel0city 4y agoMy personal laptop has 8GB of RAM running Windows. It has plenty of RAM to run multiple chat applications, SDR software, a mail client, several browser tabs, streaming music playback, several SSH sessions, a few RDP sessions, a few text editors open, all at the same time. That's kind of a common set of applications open at any given moment on the thing when its being used. I'd say that's decently multitasking. I don't doubt some things swap (pagefile, windows after all), but whatever its putting in swap is not noticeable. I don't experience stalls.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoAndroid is not really optimised for desktop usage, this is the problem. It doesn't have swap and it forces apps to reload instead, which is really annoying when doing work in multiple windows. Like I said below, go to an excel sheet to look something up, come back to the browser and it will refresh due to low memory. It's something that can be fixed but it's really inherent to Android's underlying design as a one-app-at-a-time OS.
- dboreham 4y agoAlso remember using a VAX with 30 other people with 8 Megabytes of RAM.