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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 11 months 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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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 10 months ago

I don't think so. Running outlook + chrome + Excel (the white collar baseline) will probably butt up against 8GB of RAM. These aren't supposed to be glorified netbooks, these are supposed to be midrange laptops. Midrange has been 16GB across the board for the last decade. Windows 11 barely functions on 8.

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