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Microsoft Is Quietly Deleting 32 GB RAM Recommendation for Windows 11 (www.techpowerup.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/windows@sopuli.xyz
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[–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Weird how it absolutely devours 11-12 GB of RAM, and yet they want to try to say it only needs 8 now.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    The apps that are running all day every day on my work laptop have a steady-state consumption of around 26GB.

    I'd say 11 sounds about right for freshly booted and doing nothing at all, I guess they don't care if you can't actually do anything with the computer but technically it's enough to turn it on.

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    • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, the ram requirement is the reason that adoption of 11 is so piss poor. Keep telling yourself that, msft execs.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Not sure of the numbers off the top of my head. I just know that msft has been unhappy with the numbers and have been ratcheting up their attempts to move users over, with this being their newest move. I feel that the raw numbers don't tell the whole story quite as well as msfts actions do.

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    • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Did you update win 11 or was the RAM recommendation always bs?

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    [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    "Yes, you need RAM valued at roughly a Saudi prince and a half to run all the LLM slop"

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