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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)
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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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[–] 29 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

Meanwhile, manufacturers have less flexibility with budget notebooks. Lowering their specs would make the affordable options struggle with even basic tasks in Windows 11.

Linux would help. And keeping that old PC for as long as it still works. Microsoft didn't see this coming with their attempt to force everyone onto new hardware. So much for their bloated, resource-guzzling "AI OS". No one wants it and no one will have the money to run it.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Maybe they'll (re)start selling laptops with Linux pre-installed!

    Or switch to ddr4, lol. Laptop CPUs are crippled garbage anyway, might as well use old ram.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Linux still runs very well for general use with 8GB of RAM. You can also reduce RAM usage by using zswap to compress less frequently accessed data.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    zram > zswap. compressing/uncompressing a block device in ram is much faster than doing the same from a block device on disk on virtually any cpu/ram/disk combo. typically you can set it up to use the same size block as your ram max and it works fine; 8gb zram block for 8gb ram for 16gb total ram. it's not gonna be as fast as physical 16gb of course, but is faster than an 8gb zswap block on disk.

    you can also use them together, too, and only start putting pages in the slower zswap disk once zram is full. magical stuff.

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