themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoDell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory priceswww.notebookcheck.netexternal-linkmessage-square225linkfedilinkarrow-up1601arrow-down18
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minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up57arrow-down1·2 months ago8 GB of RAM would be enough if every fucking application didn’t use Electron.
minus-squaresudoer777@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down1·2 months agoOr web applications, Firefox/Chrome uses like 32 GB RAM and constantly crashes my computer because of it
minus-squaresibachian@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agothank you. came here to say this. or, well, it also doesn’t play well with ARM, i.e. on macbooks the ram isn’t the bottle neck, its the CPU struggling with electron despite objectively being faster than x86 equivalents.
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
Not for me on linux
thank you. came here to say this.
or, well, it also doesn’t play well with ARM, i.e. on macbooks the ram isn’t the bottle neck, its the CPU struggling with electron despite objectively being faster than x86 equivalents.