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Just like today you can buy machines with 128GB of RAM... but that doesn't mean that's what people were using... a lot of people buy machines with 4GB today (ju
by brabel 2y ago
Just like today you can buy machines with 128GB of RAM... but that doesn't mean that's what people were using... a lot of people buy machines with 4GB today (just checked the most popular website in my country, lots of the offers only have 4GB: https://www.elgiganten.se/datorer-kontor/datorer/laptop https://www.elgiganten.se/datorer-kontor/datorer/laptop).
I remember pretty clearly that if you had anywhere above 512MB of RAM in 2006 you had very much top-of-the-line.
- aspenmayer 2y ago> I remember pretty clearly that if you had anywhere above 512MB of RAM in 2006 you had very much top-of-the-line. That’s a different claim than your original statement of having 100MB max.
- brabel 2y agoI am so sorry for not being 100% accurate.
- aspenmayer 2y agoI don't mean to invalidate your experience, as computers and parts prices have varied a lot historically and geographically. My point was to give some context with what was then a decent laptop with the understanding that some setups might be even more high end, and that legacy systems would have lower specs, similar to what you mentioned.
- masklinn 2y agoYou are not "not being 100% accurate", you are 100% inaccurate while accusing people of trolling.
- saalweachter 2y agoEh, 2006 was right on the cusp of the 32-bit/64-bit flip. 32-bit was still pretty common, but my first task at my first job that year was migrating a search app to compile as a 64-bit binary, for servers that had (I believe) 8GB. They were good-sized servers for the time, but not particularly exotic, commodity hardware at a startup.