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"You can get a Windows machine with 2x the RAM for the same price!" is a trope that's been around for what... 15 years now? And unless you're someone who KNOWS
by martinky24 3y ago
"You can get a Windows machine with 2x the RAM for the same price!"
is a trope that's been around for what... 15 years now? And unless you're someone who KNOWS they need the RAM (gamers, certain types of creatives, people doing certain types of development), it's proven out over and over again, they probably don't need the RAM!
- not_your_vase 3y agoAnd browser. Make sure you don't use an internet browser. And that way 640k will be enough forever.
- martinky24 3y agoAgain, for most people... 8GB is enough for regular, at-home browsing. You might be an exception, sure, but you're not "most people".
- nateb2022 3y ago> they probably don't need the RAM! But if you can get more RAM for the same price, how is that not better?
- the_snooze 3y agoYou're trading off other more qualitative benefits to get that additional RAM: screen quality, battery life, heat, UI/UX "smoothness," etc. Is the added RAM worth that trade-off? I'd argue not for most users, including power users like myself; I have a base-model 15-inch M2 Air for travel, and a beefy Windows+Linux desktop at home that I can SSH/VPN into.