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And developers will make their shitty apps more resource-efficient, right? RIGHT!?
Shit, looks like the crazy stock bubble is starting to dwarf and eat into the consumer market instead of just bursting...
The AI snake is finally eating its tail.
Oh the irony that I have 16 GB RAM on my old Lenovo
I have 16 GB in my 2014 laptop that still serves as my daily driver. 8 GB twelve years later is a joke.
I feel like old money, and I'm poor as fuck. What is this dark age of humanity?
Let's make our own RAM fab, and call it Lemmy inc!
That's going to make running anything on Windows rather uncomfortable.
Welp, glad the old laptop physically broke last night and I bought a new one with 16gb on Xmas sale today.
Also glad I built a new PC last year. Not gonna be upgrading anything for the foreseeable future the way things are looking.
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.
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?
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.
