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Microsoft sets 16GB default for RAM for AI PCs – machines will also need 40 TOPS of AI compute: Report (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Opening excel and outlook on a win11 PC brings you to almost 16GB of memory used. I don't know how anybody is still selling computers with 8GB of ram.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why in the hell do those programs take up so much space?

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

Usually, caching. They can and do use less RAM if you have less free, at the cost of slower performance.

[–] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

I mean on top of the rest of windows garbage.

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