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Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices
(www.notebookcheck.net)
Back to windows xp for me!
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
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Weird way to spell Linux Mint
8 GIGABYTES!!? How am I supposed to load a mouse driver in THAT!?
We'll trim it down so the mouse driver only has a little AI.
You can have a little AI, as a treat
Waaaayyy back in the day Dell had a real bad habit of limiting their low and midrange laptops to pitiful amounts of memory to stratify their product line even though the chipset might support more.
8 GB of RAM would be enough if every fucking application didn't use Electron.
Or web applications, Firefox/Chrome uses like 32 GB RAM and constantly crashes my computer because of it
Will they solder it?
They'll solder 4gb. So even if RAM prices go down, you're still effffed
I speak on behalf of all IT Support personnel everywhere when I say "fuck you"
"WHY IS IT SO SLOW?!?!?!"
For the price of 16GB?
More like for the price of 64GB.
For the price of 32GB, if you're lucky. Hopefully it's 8gb in a single stick so upgrading is cheaper, even if that means single channel ram speeds out of the box
Oh you sweet summer child. It will almost surely be soldered to the board so that you'll have to pay extra upfront or buy a new laptop if you want more RAM.
better start removing AI from Windows then... holy fucj my 16gb is barely holding up with windows11 that in forced to use on my work PC. slow as BALLS, it's just raping the entire system performance constantly
I wonder what's going to happen to the electron frontends if machines are bottlenecked by ram so bad. Wasn't facebook just planning to switch whatsapp's frontend to webview as well? And win11's desktop is electron too. Everyone was acting like ram is unlimited.
Don't worry, you'll just need to subscribe to My Windows Copilot Cloud+ to get access to a virtual PC with plenty of RAM from anywhere! It'll be powerful enough you'll barely notice us logging all your actions and blocking anything we don't like.
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What. My six year old cheapo Acer laptop that got my broke ass through college had 16gb ram. My raspberry pi has 8gb of ram.
Welp, glad the old laptop physically broke last night and I bought a new one with 16gb on Xmas sale today.
Also glad I built a new PC last year. Not gonna be upgrading anything for the foreseeable future the way things are looking.
Guys this is good news, maybe google and mozilla will figure it out and stop making their applications the biggest ram hogs in human history, taking more ram to render a few documents than it takes to render a AAA game. Or at least stop benchmarking a browser with 1 page open and saying look, 1 page only takes a gig of ram and most users, at least in our imagination, only have 1 page open.
Jk
It's the web as it exists now. It can't be fixed gradually, or at least that's harder than to design from scratch a replacement with same abilities, but fewer levels of abstraction, less bloat, making a client application in reasonable time being possible. Probably with architecture and semantics centered around how social networks and messengers work, not just hypertext. Visiting a webpage and reading a group chat are different ideas, the latter doesn't imply connecting to one specific location. Again, that's something that was understood since Usenet. Just no public system like Usenet, but not morally obsolete, emerged to be popular.
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Large computing will exist solely in the cloud where you will pay a subscription for it. Can't have these grubbing consumers buy anything we elites don't get a monthly cut of.
I wish this was sarcasm.
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Why not just tell me to go fuck myself and skip the unsatisfying foreplay?
Meanwhile my ThinkPad L440 will soon receive an upgrade to 16 GB of RAM. (I wonder if I can get a CPU upgrade to a Core i7)
Oh the irony that I have 16 GB RAM on my old Lenovo
I have 16 GB in my 2014 laptop that still serves as my daily driver. 8 GB twelve years later is a joke.
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