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Seriously, Don't Buy a Windows 11 PC With 8GB of RAM (www.pcmag.com)
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[–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

My parents' computers that i "upgraded" to 11 still use 8 gigs of ram. Perhaps they're just very light pc users but i still haven't heard them complain about any issues, so i haven't looked at upgrading the ram tbh. But yeah the amount of ram windows uses just to run idle is insane.