JTskulk comments on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 222 points 10 months ago (15 children)

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

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[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Someone's smelling the year of the desktop

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[–] StitchInTime@piefed.social 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

I built a gaming PC last year with 32gb, and it’s time to upgrade my MacBook…

So, logically, I just moved my workflow to my desktop. I would say dual boot for the win… but honestly most of my games run great on Linux, so I think I’m just good there until and unless this blows over.

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[–] Mondez@lemdro.id 1 point 10 months ago

When I dual booted it was to try and get away from the win.

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[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 10 points 10 months ago

They don't care, my parents laptop was decently mid-range spec bar storage, manufacturer put in a 5400RPM spinning rust drive. It was damn near unusable, crap from the factory.

Was forced to use it once when visiting and noticed the performance, put an SSD in it and it's been a fine laptop since. They're perfectly willing to hobble a laptop to save a buck.

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[–] comador@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Minix and FreeBSD...

/runs; hides

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[–] antrosapien@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago