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Does anyone else find it obscene that 4 GB of RAM is considered inadequate in a laptop? And I'm not just saying this in response to your comment; that seems to
by mwcampbell 12y ago
Does anyone else find it obscene that 4 GB of RAM is considered inadequate in a laptop? And I'm not just saying this in response to your comment; that seems to be a common opinion. For example, in the 2012 novel _Off to Be the Wizard_ (which I found quite entertaining), the protagonist answers the question, "What on earth can a person do with 4 gigabytes of RAM?" with, "Upgrade it immediately."
- Nadya 12y agoThere are two sides of this coin. 0) As programs are expected to do more or run faster, they are required to use more computational power and memory. As examples, this is especially true of 3D Rendering or Video Editing software. 1) Because of the price and abundance of hardware - many programmers have stopped caring about nearly all optimization unless it brings their program to a halt. Requiring more computational power and memory to run many of these programs. To many people $50-$60 for 8GB of 2x4GB DDR3 RAM isn't a lot of money. It's about as much as a date to the movies and cheaper than going out to dinner with the family.
- mixmastamyk 12y agoMany people use laptops as their primary workstation these days.
- Psyonic 12y agoWelcome to the "NodeWebkit" world. Where wanting to open a file bigger than 2MB is considered "unreasonable" and an app taking 200MB of RAM to show a few small files is normal.