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[–] 5 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

Man, I remember when everyone on planet Earth said "8 GB is all you need." Anymore, 8 GB is pretty low spec. I had to upgrade an old laptop (from 2016) from 6 GB to 16 because the CPU is just fine for what I do with the laptop (surf yt, check email) but the lack of RAM was making it hang up because it was constantly having to dump stuff into and out of swap.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah I recently upgraded from 8. I wish I’d just gotten 16 years ago, but I got 32 for what I paid for the 8. Turns out my games weren’t bad, my pc was

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah the shift from 8GB being the recommended to 16GB happened pretty suddenly around 2018ish. That being said, I recommend people get 32GB now since it's a relatively minor increase in cost and there are lots of apps that just suck butt at optimization, so it provides a comfortable buffer.

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