Microsoft's midrange Surface Laptop offering with 16GB RAM now starts at $1,499 for business customers, forcing the company to bring back an 8GB configuration.
Lol I just checked my RAM usage on my work laptop, literally nothing running besides Teams (and whatever else my work has going on in the background) and it’s over 9GB
Yes, that’s how RAM works. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. Ideally you want to be using almost all of it all the time. Of you’re not, what’s the point of having it? 64GB of ram is pointless if you only ever use 20GB.
I was surprised, but Windows 10 seems to adapt to amount of RAM availiable and it even tries to function on 4GB systems while leaving some space for programs user needs. On 8GB it gets to use more resources itself. And on 16+ it doesn’t change anymore.
I suspect it is their MO to convince the 7/8 users for the initial free-of-charge switch.
8GB RAM isn’t even enough to run Teams + Windows 11 on corporate PCs, not with all the other bullshit they make you install.
Lol I just checked my RAM usage on my work laptop, literally nothing running besides Teams (and whatever else my work has going on in the background) and it’s over 9GB
It’s a good thing for the OS to use as much RAM as available. Why pay for ram if you’re not going to use it?
It is. But having the RAM running at a constant high load just slows everything down.
Also, teams being so badly optimised that it needs that much to run is just bullshit
No it doesn’t. It only slows down when it’s completely full and has to use swap files.
Does it? Theoretically it shouldn’t slow down just because high ram usage unless you are truly fulling it and RAM needs to constantly free stuff.
A pc with ram running at almost 100% capacity is slow as shit, this isn’t a secret…
Ok, but we were talking about running Windows on 8GB RAM
Yes, that’s how RAM works. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. Ideally you want to be using almost all of it all the time. Of you’re not, what’s the point of having it? 64GB of ram is pointless if you only ever use 20GB.
Minimum for our Windows PCs is 32gb. Largely because security doesn’t want to reel in their shit. It’s still not enough.
My computer uses 32 GB at idle. Even 64 GB is hardly enough for all the shit I do and the security bloatware on top of win11 being dogshit
Anecdotal, so don’t trust my word on that.
I was surprised, but Windows 10 seems to adapt to amount of RAM availiable and it even tries to function on 4GB systems while leaving some space for programs user needs. On 8GB it gets to use more resources itself. And on 16+ it doesn’t change anymore.
I suspect it is their MO to convince the 7/8 users for the initial free-of-charge switch.