With DDR5 RAM prices skyrocketing, some mid-range laptops could soon ship with budget-level specs. TrendForce expects companies like Dell and Lenovo to stock more notebooks with 8GB of memory. These reasonably priced options may no longer handle intense office and gaming tasks.
  • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
    501·
    17 hours ago

    8 GB of RAM would be enough if every fucking application didn’t use Electron.

    • sibachian@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      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.

    • sudoer777@lemmy.mlEnglish
      191·
      15 hours ago

      Or web applications, Firefox/Chrome uses like 32 GB RAM and constantly crashes my computer because of it