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Microsoft sets 16GB default for RAM for AI PCs – machines will also need 40 TOPS of AI compute: Report (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Opening excel and outlook on a win11 PC brings you to almost 16GB of memory used. I don't know how anybody is still selling computers with 8GB of ram.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't work even as a hyperbole. I literally just opened an Excel spreadsheet with 51192 rows (I had Outlook already open) and those two programs still only take 417 MB of RAM combined. Meanwhile Firefox is at 2.5 GB. Yes, my total RAM currently used is 13.8 GB but I have 64 GB of RAM installed and you should know that generally the more RAM you have, the more of it gets utilized by the system (this is true for all modern OS, not just Windows) which is a good thing, because it means better performance, since you can cache more things in RAM that would otherwise needed to be read from disk. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. So even if one computer uses 16 GB of RAM for some relatively simple tasks, it doesn't necessarily mean it wouldn't run or grind to a halt on a system with less RAM.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Nephew them open for a week or so while using them consistently.

The memory usage will change drastically.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Uh... No, it doesn't. 8GB is definitely tight these days, but for simple word processing, email, and spreadsheet usage it still works fine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why in the hell do those programs take up so much space?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Usually, caching. They can and do use less RAM if you have less free, at the cost of slower performance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I mean on top of the rest of windows garbage.