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

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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 43 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Let's see how this plays out with windows 11 😄

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[–] thejml@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Swap is a thing. It'll kinda suck, but not as much as it would have pre-nvme. Except that now there's an nvme shortage... and an SSD shortage.

Ugh, I guess I'll just put Windows 2000/ME on there to complete the retro look.

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[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago

Windows 2000/ME

One is good, but slower, the other is more buggy than 98SE, but a bit faster. Not much in common between them other than year.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 point 10 months ago*

I don't think that the NVMe shortage is that big of a deal in terms of using it for swap. It's much cheaper than DRAM per GB. You don't need that much.

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[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

You could technically boot it… Not for long, and don’t open anything, but still counts, right?

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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

concidering they were shipping windows 11 systems on 4 gigs of ram and selling it, I expect it won't change much. They worked like shit but they still sold. You make it cheap enough people will buy it regardless of flaws or speed.

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[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

Often the people that buy those tiers of computers don't know enough about memory to know how limited they'd be.

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