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Large Java apps like Android Studio are not good at managing 8gb of RAM. Emulators are terrible as well. They don't play well with the swap feature.
by seunosewa 7mo ago
Large Java apps like Android Studio are not good at managing 8gb of RAM. Emulators are terrible as well. They don't play well with the swap feature.
- thinkindie 7mo agoI believe the Neo doesn't necessarily target Android Studio users as their primary segment.
- hayleox 7mo agoIf the phrase "Java app" is in your vocabulary this laptop probably isn't for you. This is for the first-time laptop buyer or the basic needs non-enthusiast user or for a child. And honestly, I think Apple might make a killing here. Basic laptop users want to do no research and they want it to just work, and accessible marketing is Apple's core competency.
- kristianp 7mo agoDon't students learn java any more?
- bzzzt 7mo agoDepends on the course I think. But 8Gb is more than enough to run a Java 'Hello World' GUI app or even something heavier. Students don't - as a rule - get to deal with millions of lines codebases.
- brabel 7mo agoI don’t know if you’re serious but a Java Swing all that’s simple should not consume more than 8 Mb, let alone GB!
- bzzzt 7mo agoJust tried out a simple Java Swing popup and it uses 6Mb of heap so that's allright then ;). (on my machine it will reserve 160Mb of memory for thread stacks, code caches, buffers and GC but that won't be a problem unless you use it) In the 90s I also thought that was wasteful (my first PC had 32Mb). Nowadays with Electron apps taking up gigabytes it doesn't seem that bad anymore.
- pasc1878 7mo agoYes but only comp sci ones do - and if you are doing that then you need more than a base computer. Students in non STEM areas will not usually need more than writing and reading tools.