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This looks like the perfect laptop for me at this moment. I just worry that a ceiling of 8GB of RAM means it won't be the perfect laptop for me next year. And I
by Splendor 11y ago
This looks like the perfect laptop for me at this moment. I just worry that a ceiling of 8GB of RAM means it won't be the perfect laptop for me next year. And I'd like my laptop to last me 2-3 years.
- SuperKlaus 11y agoSecond that, 8GB of RAM is a bit meager.
- TheLoneWolfling 11y agoMy current laptop has 8GB of ram, and I have to agree. It's not at the point where it's constantly an issue, but it does become an issue relatively commonly. Especially if I have, say, Eclipse and Pale Moon (FireFox fork) open at the same time.
- skroth 11y agoI think it is mainly supposed to compete with Macbook Air, which is only configurable to 8GB. If you need more you should consider something more like a mobile workstation like a MBP or the Dell M3800.
- djhworld 11y agoGoogle Chrome takes up at least 2.5GB on my Mac, 8GB is a complete joke
- ulfw 11y agoTime to get rid of Chrome then.
- dijit 11y agothe alternative is firefox, and that's just as bad. the issue isn't necessarily chrome, chromes only crime is correctly jailing tabs. the issue is in certain sites adding an absolute metric tonne of javascript and javascript libraries. my previous workplace had over 10MB of javascript on the home page alone, new devs reduced it to 1.5MB or so, but that's _still insane_. and a 1.5MB download isn't 1.5MB in memory, it's much more. we need to tone down the "richness' of our sites.. your users aren't _only_ using _your_ site!
- Alupis 11y agoI think it's safe to say, any browser with 50-80+ tabs open will gobble up ram. Especially if it does tab-process isolation (each tab having it's own memory space, etc...)
- zerd 11y agoMore like time to close some tabs. But I really like having my tabs open!
- tluyben2 11y agoI moved to Safari because of that. I like Chrome better functionality wise but Safari seems to be better optimised at least for Mac OS X.
- Someone1234 11y agoI've read that Safari on OS X (and IE on Windows 8) use less battery than third party browsers these days. So that's a good reason also.
- tluyben2 11y agoYes, that was the other reason; because of the high load it would kill my battery really fast. That improved. Not enough, but a bit anyway.
- avinassh 11y agoEven I felt same and 8GB RAM did not bother me much. But then I read a comment[0] yesterday's thread and it changed my plans. I did bit of Googling and looks like people still facing issues. [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9332619 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9332619