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Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices (www.notebookcheck.net)
submitted 3 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's going to make running anything on Windows rather uncomfortable.

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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I thought I'd be fine, that I'd buy the other 16GB stick later. Now is later, I am screwed. I had to enable the use of ALT-SysRq-f to manually invoke OOM-killer because I often run out of RAM.

8GB just feels like way too little for a new laptop. Well, maybe the absolutely cheap ones, but "mid-range", no.

It's crazy. A bit over a year ago I got a refurbished ThinkPad for €180 with 1x16GB of RAM. Now that RAM costs around €120.

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[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Dell and Lenovo price gouge consumers

FTFY

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Windows 11 is actually unusable on 8GB RAM

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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

It’s not even going to run chrome my guys

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Oh the irony that I have 16 GB RAM on my old Lenovo

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I... ok.

Am I an idiot, or... at least when it comes to system RAM...

Do you really need DDR5 RAM, instead of DDR4?

Like, say I have 32 GB or DDR4 vs 32GB of DDR5.

Beyond I guess crushing some benchmark software harder... what are the actual practical benefits of this?

For an average person?

What can I do with 32 gigs of DDR5 that I can't do with 32 gigs of DDR4? Or 16? Or 24?

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Typically the CPU and motherboard are both tied to a specific generation of RAM, which is keyed and traced differently on the motherboard for DDR 4 vs 5.

For example the current AMD socket AM5 requires DDR 5. You’d have to go back to AM4 Ryzen 5000 series for DDR 4 support.

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