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

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Honestly, it'll be more efficient to have memory in a datacenter in that hardware in a datacenter will see higher average capacity utilization, but it's gonna drive up datacenter prices too.

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[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Not sure I agree. Centralizing storage, and especially memory, creates incredible round trip costs.

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

I mean, efficient in terms of memory utilization, like. Obviously there are gonna be associated costs and drawbacks with having remote compute.

Just that if the world has only N GB of RAM, you can probably get more out of it on some system running a bunch of containers, where any inactive memory gets used by some other container.

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[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago

But imagine the latency and network bandwidth issues, there's a reason most companies moved away from the huge central framework model to distributed computing

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[–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 1 point 10 months ago

As a dirty commie, I agree, but unfortunately under capitalism it is just an avenue for exploitation. Large companies are deciding what we can or cannot have access to and setting the price for it in a manner completely divorced from what they're offering.

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