Technology

It’s not even going to run chrome my guys

zswap and zram ~~becoming highly critical software again~~ trying to shove your fat 16Gb allocated application into 8Gb of RAM with room to spare:

lol lets fuck all other computational sciences so that people can generate cats drinking whiskey in robes de chambre.

Apples going to come out with a 4gb phone and somehow still pitch it as a glorious innovation.

I bought a 64gb desktop in late 2024, in addition to many other expensive features. They can kiss my ass.

8 GIGABYTES!!? How am I supposed to load a mouse driver in THAT!?

Dell and Lenovo price gouge consumers

FTFY

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

Was lucky enough to get one of the last 64GB 2-in-1 thinkpad x1 at 25% discount, a few days later an "upgrade" appeared with max 32GB and 700€ more expensive...

I speak on behalf of all IT Support personnel everywhere when I say "fuck you"

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.

Lol, forget a browser, is that even enough to run Windows 11 well?

(In before jokes about windows 11 ever running "well")

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.

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

For the price of 16GB?

Hah, guess they're gonna have to run Linux. Windows 11 would choke on 8 GB RAM.

Shit, looks like the crazy stock bubble is starting to dwarf and eat into the consumer market instead of just bursting...

Do it. I know which OS will run fine on 8G of RAM and which one won't.

Back to windows xp for me!

Why not just tell me to go fuck myself and skip the unsatisfying foreplay?

Will they solder it?

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.

It's neat that AI is already ruining the world in really tangible ways.

Maybe this will be a boon. The entire reason the ram requirements got so high as it is is because software optimization was put on the back burner. Maybe a ram shortage where people can't obtain the ram needed will force the big name software devs to start being more frugal with ram. (talking to you chrome... whom currently is using 2 gigs alone just trying to show a twitch stream...)

Time to switch to Linux people lol. Windows is barely usable on 8GB these days.

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