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What's best these days? 16Gb slow memory, or 8Gb fast (retrofed.com)
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[–] 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

16GiB, the modern web is starting to be quite rough on 8GiB. Unless you have a very performance sensitive application, I don't think the timings matter that much.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    From JS? Wonder if there is a way to force it to not be such. Only application I know runs horribly is Mastodon.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I think it depends if You have the habit of leaving tabs open. I had to use a 8GiB computer for a while this year, it worked well, but opening discord, YouTube and a webmail simultaneously was pushing it.

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