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"Rising cost of memory," Microsoft explains why Windows 11 will use less RAM (www.windowslatest.com)

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Pavan Davuluri says the rising cost of memory is why Windows 11 will use less RAM, with work on the memory manager, WinUI 3 and WebView2.

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[–] cenzorrll@piefed.ca 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

My xp laptop came with 512MB of ram. I'm pretty sure 256MB was typical.

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[–] BladeFederation@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

For real, OP must have been rich. I ran Windows 7 on 1 GB well enough. It got slow eventually but I used it until 2016.

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