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Not everyone buys machines new. In ten years that laptop on eBay is stuck with that amount of RAM, limiting its use.
by opan 3y ago
Not everyone buys machines new. In ten years that laptop on eBay is stuck with that amount of RAM, limiting its use.
- rjh29 3y agoDefinitely true. But unlike SSDs (ten years ago you'd get like 256GB, now it's more like 2TB) the ram curve is a lot more flat and it's fairly cheap to buy 32GB+ ram and imo that will future proof you for quite a while.
- okasaki 3y agoNo, very often extra ram comes bundled only in high end configurations, so you have to buy a much more expensive i7 cpu, or you're charged an extraordinary amount (like +$1000 to go from 16GB ram/512GB ssd to 32GB ram/1TB ssd for a Microsoft Surface), or it's just straight up not available for the model you want. And what if you want to buy used and upgrade? Laptops without replaceable ram are disgustingly cynical e-waste and shouldn't be allowed.
- rjh29 3y agoStop buying new laptops then?