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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)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social to c/hardware@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] Dojan@pawb.social 27 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Lfmao. Good luck running Windows 11 with that.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

For a typical browsing/youtube/office laptop user this is going to be enough. For the rest of us - fuck us I guess.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My work computer has 32 gigs, it’s the only computer in my home with Windows on it. If I sit with teams and a browser open it’s sat at 12,2GB.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You can't measure memory consumption like that. You could run the same shit with 8 GB and it'd be using like 6 or 7 I bet.

Operating systems use spare memory to cache things for faster access.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 2 points 6 days ago

Windows does a poor job at faster access.

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