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Interesting you say this, since pretty much everyone agrees that this laptop is nothing more than a "facebook" machine. Has a slow processor, low amount of ram,

by fuj 11y ago

Interesting you say this, since pretty much everyone agrees that this laptop is nothing more than a "facebook" machine. Has a slow processor, low amount of ram, awful keyboard, etc.

outworlder 11y ago
Load of crap. It's plenty fast for most applications.
freehunter 11y ago
8GB of RAM is too low for anything other than Facebook? Wow browsers sure are getting bloated...
- chiph 11y ago
  It's probably because of iTunes. Safari with 3 tabs open on my MBP is 222mb, iTunes is 291mb. YMMV.
- BuildTheRobots 11y ago
  My web browsing seems to consume obscene quantities of ram (there was an interesting article a little while ago about how Adblock can eat 400mb _per iframe_) -but them I am one of those tab-hoarding types. Ironically (incidentally) Facebook seems to be one of the worst offenders. If I sign into facebook and then forget to sleep my desktop, I can get back from a weekend away to find firefox has eaten 15gb of ram and a painful amount of swap. Chromium seemed to be just as bad last I tried it.
  - Kurtz79 11y ago
    Considering that nowadays every tab is basically an independent application (in Chrome, literally), if you have 20 tabs open is equivalent of having 20 separate applications open, it's kind of pointless complaining about RAM usage of the "web browser".
  - freehunter 11y ago
    I just think it's odd to say because my development/gaming desktop was just upgraded to 8GB of RAM from 6GB a few months ago and I never close tabs or shut anything down until something crashes. So saying 8GB of RAM is only good enough for Facebook... you should see my Steam library that likes 8GB of RAM just fine. Maybe the problem isn't that Facebook takes 15GB of RAM, it's that Firefox or Chrome will take literally as much RAM as it can get. I should try surfing Facebook on the 128GB servers we have at work and report back my findings...
Kurtz79 11y ago
Uh, sources ? It has the same amount of RAM as most ultrabooks (the base model it has more than the base Air models or Dell XPS ones, actually). The keyboard is shallow, but I haven't seen it described as "awful" or even "bad" anywhere. Besides the fact that it's probably good enough for things that are not compiling complex applications/gaming/encoding/simulations (heavy loads sustained in time), it is more than enough for the uses that the parent wrote about (remote ssh/compiling small programs).

by fuj 11y ago

Interesting you say this, since pretty much everyone agrees that this laptop is nothing more than a "facebook" machine. Has a slow processor, low amount of ram, awful keyboard, etc.

outworlder 11y ago

Load of crap. It's plenty fast for most applications.

freehunter 11y ago

8GB of RAM is too low for anything other than Facebook? Wow browsers sure are getting bloated...

chiph 11y ago
It's probably because of iTunes. Safari with 3 tabs open on my MBP is 222mb, iTunes is 291mb. YMMV.
BuildTheRobots 11y ago
My web browsing seems to consume obscene quantities of ram (there was an interesting article a little while ago about how Adblock can eat 400mb _per iframe_) -but them I am one of those tab-hoarding types. Ironically (incidentally) Facebook seems to be one of the worst offenders. If I sign into facebook and then forget to sleep my desktop, I can get back from a weekend away to find firefox has eaten 15gb of ram and a painful amount of swap. Chromium seemed to be just as bad last I tried it.
- Kurtz79 11y ago
  Considering that nowadays every tab is basically an independent application (in Chrome, literally), if you have 20 tabs open is equivalent of having 20 separate applications open, it's kind of pointless complaining about RAM usage of the "web browser".
- freehunter 11y ago
  I just think it's odd to say because my development/gaming desktop was just upgraded to 8GB of RAM from 6GB a few months ago and I never close tabs or shut anything down until something crashes. So saying 8GB of RAM is only good enough for Facebook... you should see my Steam library that likes 8GB of RAM just fine. Maybe the problem isn't that Facebook takes 15GB of RAM, it's that Firefox or Chrome will take literally as much RAM as it can get. I should try surfing Facebook on the 128GB servers we have at work and report back my findings...

Kurtz79 11y ago

Uh, sources ? It has the same amount of RAM as most ultrabooks (the base model it has more than the base Air models or Dell XPS ones, actually). The keyboard is shallow, but I haven't seen it described as "awful" or even "bad" anywhere. Besides the fact that it's probably good enough for things that are not compiling complex applications/gaming/encoding/simulations (heavy loads sustained in time), it is more than enough for the uses that the parent wrote about (remote ssh/compiling small programs).